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Gardner Builders earns top category recognition from Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2023.

Best Workplaces for Innovators 2023: Midsize companies

[Source photo: Shannon Fagan/Stone/Getty Images]

BY Jay Woodruff

Five companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees stood out to this year’s judges.

Winner: Gardner Builders

Minneapolis

In an industry not exactly famous for promoting worker well-being, the commercial construction company offers wellness pods at construction sites that provide quiet and safe spaces for employees to decompress, take medicine, pump breast milk, pray, or take important calls.

Finalists:

Board of Innovation, Antwerp, Belgium

Figs, Santa Monica, CA

Radio Flyer, Chicago

Uplight, Boulder, CO


This story is part of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2023. Explore the full list of companies that are leading incubators of internal innovation talent.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jay Woodruff is a senior editor at Fast Company and leads the annual Best Workplaces for Innovators program. Prior to joining Fast Company, he was an editor at Entertainment Weekly and Esquire and helped launch the quarterly DoubleTake More


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