Failure parties, foosball tables, and scientific sabbaticals are just some of the things that make this year's top companies stand out from the crowd.
By Edyta Zielinska
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When a project gets cut, Inspire Pharmaceuticals acknowledges the amount of work a team had invested into a project in a rather unusual way. "We have failure parties," says Ward Peterson, vice president of discovery. The company, which develops treatments for ophthalmic and respiratory/allergy diseases, placed fourth in this year's survey by The Scientist of Best Places to Work in Industry. Before taking the team out for a dinner to celebrate their efforts, employees at Inspire write out their favorite things about the project and plaster a wall with their comments.
In our fifth annual survey, scientists ranked appreciation for their efforts as the second most important factor that defines a good workplace, right behind personal satisfaction. "Trying to find new ...
