For the first time a large international company wins the competition about the best place to work Denmark in.

It is not just in Denmark that Microsoft’s happy employees obtain the first ranking. Microsoft also wins in 13 other countries this year – eight in Europe and five in South America where the software company moreover was elected as the best place to work in the whole of Latin America. Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin had this information together with the published list of Denmark’s 50 best places to work.

The top ten are:

1. Microsoft Denmark
2. Middelfart Sparekasse
3. Cultivator
4. Frøs Herreds Sparekasse
5. Irma
6. Roche Danmark
7. Boehringer Ingelheim Danmark
8. Unimerco
9. Oracle Danmark
10. Roskilde Bank

Microsoft Danmark’s CEO Jørgen Bardenfleth comments the result:

“We aim at having the best from both worlds. The American: the enormous muscle that the Americans have with their large companies gives strength. The willingness not to let oneself be limited as well as commitment are American values. We add the Danishness: the ability to cross work, that we are not divided hierarchically, that we work in an unpretentious way. This mixture of a Nordic and an American company culture is really good.”

Microsoft Danmark employs 400 persons, not including the business solution branch in the former Navision located at Vedbæk.

Novozymes won the prize for being the best to create balance between working life and private life. It is about flexibility and about believing that employees need to develop themselves to be happy. It is about an active stress handling and about a company that trusts its employees.

The mapping of Denmark’s best places to work was carried out by Great Place to Work Institute Danmark during the period February-September 2006. According to the model a good place to work is where the employees trust the persons they work for, are proud of what they work with, and where the employees appreciate their colleagues. The five key words are: trust, respect, fairness, pride and solidarity.

Read more in Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin: http://www.bny.dk/