Ann Arbor’s Menlo Innovations ranked as a top workplace

The art of workplace collaboration and inspiration is not only difficult, it’s one few companies bother to perfect. Software developer Menlo Innovations has made it a personal mission. The result? Applicants who develop a “company crush” during interviews. Excerpt:”The company prizes collaboration above all things, because that is what employees do all day, every day. Nearly everyone at Menlo works in pairs. Two people share a single computer, passing the mouse back and forth while brainstorming ideas and double-barreling problems. Pairs stay together for a week. On Mondays, they all switch, like dancers in a Jane Austen novel. Employees start fresh not only with new partners each week but also, in many cases, with new pieces of a project or a new project altogether. There’s a little bit of a learning curve with every change, but the new person brings a fresh perspective to the proceedings.”Read the rest here.