Inc. Magazine has selected the New York Jets as one of the best small business to work for in the country.
The Jets’s new 120,000-square-foot complex is the key to providing a superior workplace that unites the business and football sides of the organization. Employees have access to the fieldhouse and the team’s gym. For a nominal fee, the organization also provides breakfast, lunch, and snacks throughout the workday, featuring a salad bar, organic fruits and vegetables, and grass-fed beef. Employees are eligible for tuition reimbursement of up to $15,000 per year.
What impressed the magazine the most was the Jets’ new Florham Park training facility.
But hidden away on a 27-acre expanse in Florham Park, New Jersey, sits what is perhaps the organization’s most significant new asset: a 120,000-square-foot shrine to athletic and corporate excellence. The Atlantic Health Jets Training Center, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, houses five football fields, immaculate and sunny open-plan offices, and—this is a sports franchise, after all—many dozens of TVs tuned to ESPN and the NFL Network. “We wanted to create something that was not just an operating structure,” [Jets' owner Woody] Johnson says. “We also wanted a place people were proud to come to every day.”
Pretty impressive, and a great credit to the Jets for being named as one of Top 20 small company workplaces in the U.S.
Read the article here.
