Crain's looks at cool places to work in Southeast Michigan

In a special section, Crain's Detroit Business names 60 Cool Places to Work in Southeast Michigan and also examines what exactly does make an employee feel valued and challenged.

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According to Kevin Marrs, director of survey services at ASE, there were some surprises.

He explained that with the uncertain economy, companies would normally be concentrating their efforts on "maintaining" their employees rather than offering incentives to attract new employees. But he noted an increase in certain recruitment incentives, such as higher starting salaries, higher premiums for additional skills and an increase in signing bonuses.

"There also was a good increase in group or team incentives. More companies are using variable incentives for compensation," he said.

Read an overview of the survey and ranking criteria here and read a list of the 60 companies here. More detail about what each company does uniquely is here.