I like that Joel post. Excellent ideas. Most of my customers have a few of those items but not enough. I have the fun of helping to improve their processes too. Here [1] are a bunch of places to consider in your quest. The Business Journal has done this survey for 13? years. Company employees fill it out anonymously. The survey has many pages/questions (my employer has participated/won for the past 7? years). [1] http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2011/07/08/best-places-to-work.html On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: > How does the typical workplace do on the Joel Test ( > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html)? Joel says > that a score of 10 or less is bad, though I suspect that only a small > percentage of companies are 11 or 12. He says that most companies only rate > a 2 or 3, which sounds very bad. > > I'm not that interested in perks like free pop (I don't drink it, and it's > unhealthy), free beer (I don't drink it, and it would be bad for my > concentration), foosball (nice to have but certainly not necessary), the > right to bring my pet to work (since I have no pets), etc. If the work > environment isn't right, no perks can make up for it. > > -- > Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> > Founder and lead developer of Swift Linux (http://www.swiftlinux.org) > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110730/d6a76419/attachment.html>