{"id":1637,"date":"2012-03-22T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"mallardsnamedoneofmadisonsbestplacestoworkfor2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2012\/03\/22\/mallardsnamedoneofmadisonsbestplacestoworkfor2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallards Named One of Madison&#8217;s Best Places to Work for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madison, WI &#8211; March 22, 2012. \u00a0<em>Madison Magazine <\/em>and WISC-TV&#8217;s Live at Five along with Next Generation Consulting have named the Madison Mallards one of Madison&#8217;s Best Places to Work for 2012. The Mallards are one of 20 winners recognized in the April 2012 issue of <em>Madison Magazine <\/em>which hit news stands today.<\/p>\n<p>The Mallards have 15 full-time employees, and annually hire six seasonal positions, 24 interns, and over 300 game-day staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mallards Baseball is all about having fun whether you are a fan, a player or an employee,&#8221; said Mallards General Manager Conor Caloia. \u00a0&#8220;This award is a testament to the dedication and loyalty of the more than 350 employees that make the experience at the &#8220;Duck Pond&#8221; so much fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"lazyload\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27188%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20188%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27188%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/ORGANIZEDIMAGES\/Organization\/webstories\/Best Places to Work Web Story.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" alt=\"Best Places to Work Web Story\" style=\"float: right; margin: 3px;\" \/>A record 110 companies were nominated, with more than half of those completing the extensive survey phase evaluated by Next Generation Consulting.<\/p>\n<p>The survey measures six areas of employee engagement: trust, management, development, rewards, connection and life-work balance. \u00a0New this year was a separate human resources questionnaire that rated organizations in the areas of sustainability and diversity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year&#8217;s winners were more qualified than ever before and those that made it into the top 10 scored higher than previous winners in nearly all areas of employee engagement,&#8221; says <em>Madison Magazine <\/em>editor Brennan Nardi. \u00a0&#8220;Madison gets high marks for being a great place to live. \u00a0Our survey shows it&#8217;s a great place to work, too, and highlights the best practices of those leading the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Companies were divided into two groups based on organization size &#8211; those with 100 and more employees and those with under 100. \u00a0The Top 10 Organizations in each category were recognized and were ranked by best score based on 80% Employee Engagement, 15% Sustainability, and 5% Diversity. \u00a0The Mallards ranked seventh in the companies with over 100 employees.<\/p>\n<p>The Mallards will host their season opener against the Battle Creek Bombers on May 30th at 7:05 pm at the &#8220;Duck Pond.&#8221; 7-Game Packs, season, and group tickets are on sale now! \u00a0Single-game tickets go on sale April 28th.<\/p>\n<p>The Madison Mallards are part of the 16-team Northwoods League. \u00a0The Northwoods League has more teams, plays more games, and draws more fans than any other Summer Collegiate Baseball League in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison, WI &#8211; March 22, 2012. \u00a0Madison Magazine and WISC-TV&#8217;s Live at Five along with Next Generation Consulting have named  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mallards Named One of Madison&#039;s Best Places to Work for 2012 - Madison Mallards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2012\/03\/22\/mallardsnamedoneofmadisonsbestplacestoworkfor2012\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mallards Named One of Madison&#039;s Best Places to Work for 2012\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Madison, WI &#8211; 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