Ingredients for a Best Place to Work: When one of Counselor Top 40 supplier The Magnet Group’s (asi/68507) team members was seriously ill over the holidays, Chief Revenue Officer Dan Jellinek had never seen such an outpouring of love from the TMG team. The texts, calls, videos and gifts were so heartwarming to see, he adds. That’s what happens when you work with people you truly want to spend time with outside of the office.

“I know it’s cliché to say, ‘We’re family,’ but we exemplify that,” Jellinek says. “We truly care about our people.”

The Magnet Group (asi/68507) team shows off its competitive side at team bonding activities like PopStroke mini-golf or axe throwing.

Top Benefits & Perks: Despite increased costs posing challenges across the board, TMG has done its best to minimize the impact of things like increased insurance rates on employees. Providing a comprehensive benefits package – and more importantly, the security that offers to employees – is a meaningful focus for the company, Jellinek says.

It’s smaller things, too, he adds: handwritten thank-you notes after a job well done, group dinners, fun team-building activities. Especially when new employees are brought onboard, Jellinek says, the TMG team tries to make it a special experience, in addition to getting them all the essentials for job success. “A new hire will see we work really hard, and we like to have fun,” Jellinek says.

Parting Tip: “Do the little things,” says Jellinek. “A thank-you, a smile, a good morning – or even remembering they had a hard day Friday and checking in on them Monday.”

If The Magnet Group Were a Movie, It Would Be Apollo 13. Jellinek says his team is the engineers on the ground serving the astronauts (“customers”), aka those closest to the problem. “No egos, no credit-seeking – just ‘How do we get them home?’” he says. “Internal teams exist to enable front-line success, and fairness means facts.”