The best place to work

The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal is out with its list of the best places to work.

According to a news release, here’s the criteria:

To be eligible for consideration as a Business Journal Best Place to Work, companies had to have an office in the Twin Cities 11-county metro area with 10 or more employees, or be Minnesota-based companies with at least 1,000 employees in the state. They also had to have a certain number of employees, depending on company size, complete the online survey.

The online survey part of it is a little questionable. One can imagine the benevolent boss begging the employees to click the survey.

Here’s the list:

Administaff Inc.

Arts Midwest

Azul 7

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

Capella Education Co.

Carmichael Lynch

Certes Financial Professionals Corp.

Clockwork Active Media Systems

CMGRP Inc.

Colliers Turley Martin Tucker

Comcast

Ecolab Inc.

Ecumen

First Financial USA Ltd.

Fortune Financial

Fredrikson & Byron

Goff & Howard Inc.

Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett

Great River Energy

Harbinger Partners Inc.

HealthEast Care System

Horizontal Integration

Intertech Inc.

Into the Mystic Inc.

JRA Financial Advisors

Lakeview Health

Lancet Software Development Inc.

LarsonAllen

Lindquist & Vennum

Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc.

Olson

Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly

Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg + Gotlieb

RBA Inc.

Reside

Riverbridge Partners

Salo

Securian Financial Group Inc.

Solution Design Group Inc.

SPS Commerce

Tobin Real Estate Co.

Vibrant Technologies Inc.

Wells Fargo

Wenck Associates Inc.

Winthrop & Weinstine

If you work at one of those places, what’s so great about it. If you work at another place not listed, why do you think it shold — or shouldn’t — be on the list.

(PS: I’ll be on the road to St. Cloud this morning. Posting will be sporadic until the afternoon)