Ingredients for a Best Place to Work: Employees are treated as entrepreneurs at Consolidus (asi/166966). In fact, that’s the company’s purpose – “to enrich our people’s lives through intrapreneurship,” says Krysti Horvat, Consolidus’ director of design. That gives employees the opportunity to chart their own course at work. “We like our team members to think of themselves as owning a business within our business,” she says.

In that way, every day is like a workshop for big thinkers. Employees are excited by the prospect of peer learning and teamwork to accomplish goals in novel ways. Management is also dedicated to incorporating feedback from the team, and making changes based on it. “We like to say, ‘We’re never the same company two weeks in a row,’ meaning that we’re always improving,” Horvat says.

Top Benefits & Perks: Getting up from your desk at least once an hour is a massive health boost for your heart, blood sugar and more, Harvard Health says. At Consolidus, they take that seriously. Every hour there’s a one-minute workout, and there’s also a walk/hike/bike/run group that counts steps. (It’s voluntary, of course, but healthy decisions are part of the company’s values.) Employees also enjoy flex time from day to day, and a hybrid work schedule that adds more home days with more tenure. “This has been successful because we have time to train and immerse new hires into our culture and get to know each other as they learn their role,” says Horvat.