Best Companies to Work for in Colorado ’09
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Best Company winner
Cheyenne Mountain Resort
www.cheyennemountainresort.com
Founded: 1980
Location: Colorado Springs
CEO: Laura Neumann
2008 revenue: Not disclosed
Colorado workers: 445
In a nutshell: Destination resort hotel with golf, four swimming pools, indoor and outdoor tennis, fitness center and 35-acre lake for sailing and fishing.
What’s special: Employees and their families get discounted room rates, a 50 percent discount at all food and beverage outlets, and a 25 percent discount at the resort’s catered events. Workers also can golf for free, subject to availability.
Benefits: Included in an employee’s medical coverage is a wellness incentive, which includes a $600 wellness benefit for services not already covered under preventive care. The package includes $300 toward health and fitness programs.
2008 Rank: No. 8
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Best Company winner
Quest Diagnostics Inc.
www.questdiagnostics.com
Founded: 1967
Location: Major laboratory facility in Denver, headquartered Madison, N.J.
CEO: Surja Mohapatra
2008 revenue: $6.7 billion
Colorado workers: 708
In a nutshell: Quest Diagnostics is the leading U.S. provider of diagnostic testing and services, including routine medical testing, gene-based testing, drugs-of-abuse testing and anatomic pathology testing. Quest is also the leading provider of risk-assessment services to the life insurance industry.
Perks: Quest’s Blueprint for Wellness program provides employees and their spouses or domestic partners a free, complete health assessment that includes having their blood drawn at a Quest lab and receiving an 18-page personal wellness report. Employees who participate pay $10 less per paycheck to their company-sponsored health plan.
What’s special: Quest’s GENESIS Mentoring Program is aimed at creating an inclusive, cross-functional learning environment to maximize the growth potential and business contribution of the company’s leadership team. The program adds to the development of future leaders as a part of Quest Diagnostics’ goal of creating a diverse leadership pipeline.
2008 Rank: No. 9
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Best Company winner
CoBank
www.cobank.com
Founded: 1916
Location: Headquartered in Greenwood Village with 11 regional offices throughout the U.S.
CEO: Robert B. Engel
2008 revenue: $863 million (net interest income)
Colorado workers: 423
In a nutshell: With more than $63 billion in assets, CoBank is the largest financial-services institution headquartered in Colorado. CoBank is a cooperative, owned by customers. They include agribusinesses, agricultural cooperatives, farm credit associations, rural energy companies, communications companies and water companies.
What’s special: CoBank conducts two companywide employee meetings each year, giving associates the opportunity to hear from the executive team and get a sense of long-term company plans. The meetings typically are held off-site and include a meal.
Perks: Employees can take up to four hours off for personal reasons on any given day – with supervisor approval – and make up those hours during the same week.
Values: CoBank expects employees to have a life that is more than just working for CoBank. That may mean the time to coach a child’s soccer team, volunteer at a local shelter or play in a band. For others it may simply be the comfort of knowing they can make it home for dinner each night. Maintaining a healthy life balance, whatever that may look like, is crucial to the bank’s sustainable success.
2008 rank: No. 11
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Best Company winner
Merrick & Co.
www.merrick.com
Founded: 1955
Location: Headquartered in Aurora, 11 total offices in the U.S., Canada and Mexico
CEO: Ralph W. Christie Jr.
2008 revenue: $87 million
Colorado workers: 309
In a nutshell: Merrick & Co. specializes in engineering and architectural design, facility and equipment design-build, procurement, construction management, and geospatial services.
What’s special: Merrick’s internship program enables college sophomores and juniors to experience a hands-on engineering experience. They are provided a mentor and attend weekly meetings dealing with public speaking, resume writing, office etiquette, interview skills and meeting management. This school year Merrick had approximately 700 applications for 15 paid internships. Merrick hires approximately 80 percent of its intern class each year.
Perks: Merrick has developed two types of part-time positions for its retirees: regular part-time, and an on-call basis. Regular part-timers receive benefits. The program allows Merrick to maintain contact with valued employees and tap into their experience. Currently five retirees are participating in the program.
Values: “We know that our employees have great resources when it comes to finding quality employees for us,” the company says. Merrick is developing a mentoring process for its Leadership Development Program and will provide training for participants, either as a mentor or mentee.
2008 RANK: No. 7
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I see Quest made it again as one of the top places to work as they were listed nbr 7. That's gotta make you feel good!
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Steve Eller By Jim Dumbauld on 2009 08 03
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