Hot Companies
14 businesses go beyond the cubicle to reinvent the working world. (And better yet, they’re hiring!)
By Jim Gullo and Jessica VoelkerWith contribution from Sarah Anderson, Lee Fehrenbacher, Laura Peach, and Jena Vuylsteke
Entellium
It’s the middle of the workday, and inside a conference room in downtown Seattle, a group of men sits at attention, eyes glued on a figure standing in front of them. He scribbles on a dry-erase board, his audience reacting to each and every mark: crossing their arms, nodding their heads. It looks like a fiscal strategy session, but this is a meeting of Entellium’s Division Two men’s soccer team, and it’s almost game time.
Founded in 2000, Entellium helps clients build customer relationships but prides itself on the relationships it fosters with its own employees, called “partners,” and that’s not just corporate jargon: Every employee owns valued stock in the company. Operating on the principle that people who like their jobs will work hard to keep them, Entellium encourages partners to make work fun (thus the soccer powwow) and offers enticing incentives like a biannual award for a trip to Malaysia to visit company offices, followed by an all-expenses-paid vacation.
But perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of Entellium’s commitment to partner appreciation is in the way it doles out office real estate: prime views of the Puget Sound go to the cubicle dwellers, while most managers’ offices are found in the windowless center.
Business Entellium
Industry Technology
What they do Develop customer relationship management software.
Job growth in one year 100 percent
Currently hiring in Sales, marketing, product and technology, IT, customer experience, human resources
Number of employees 106 locally, 210 worldwide
Founded 2000
Location Downtown
Web site www.entellium.com
Published: April 2008