Meet this year’s winning companies and learn what it takes to create a great workplace

If your workplace was a fictional company or TV show, which one would it be? That’s one of the questions we asked this year’s Best Places to Work winning companies as part of our Mad Libs-themed special section. We got a variety of answers but the most popular response was “Cheers,” a.k.a. the place where everybody knows your name. Perhaps it’s not surprising that amid all the uncertainty of the last few years, employees are giving high marks to organizations that make an effort to know them personally rather than just seeing them as another line on a spreadsheet.