Today AdAge published their top 30 list of Best places to Work in Marketing and Media in 2010. The list celebrates the 30 employers in the marketing, media and advertising industry that have created environments in which people love to work and contribute their best ideas.

These companies simultaneously nurture employees, clients and their communities with things like diversity programs, family-friendly benefits, education reimbursement and workspaces designed to stimulate creativity.

Unfortunately, we are not on the list, and none of the distinguished companies is even from Chicago. But with all the changes that are taking place within UX Sears I believe that we could have a shot for the next year. Just a few tweaks here and there, like the workspace design and implementation of the flexible working arrangements, and other improvements we can not only boost our results, revenue but also make the employees feel proud of the work they’re doing. We are really not that far off, and do offer all the things that employees value the most, we just need to take it to the next level.