The Minnesota Attorney General's Office earned top honors this month in a survey of the nation's best workplaces.
Energage awarded the office its Top Workplace USA distinction after surveying its employees at the request of Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ellison's office reported an 80% response rate to the survey, well above the 35% required to be eligible for consideration.
"I'm proud of this honor, but it's not for me — it's for the outstanding staff of the Attorney General's Office who help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect every day, with integrity and dedication," Ellison said in a statement this week. "They are public servants in the best and fullest sense."
When Ellison took office in 2019, he inherited a staff that had been reduced by half in the two decades prior. He soon convened what staff described at the time as the first all-hands meeting in nearly 20 years and met personally with each of the office's roughly 130 attorneys. He said he continues to gather staff at least once monthly for similar check-ins.
The Top Workplaces USA methodology gathers employee feedback on a company's direction, its values and management, among other benchmarks. Ellison's office also ranked among the top 175 workplaces in Minnesota in last year's Energage survey.
Ellison is running for re-election this year. A growing field of Republicans seeking to challenge the DFL incumbent includes his 2018 opponent Doug Wardlow, former judge and legislator Tad Jude, attorney Jim Schultz, former legislator Dennis Smith and attorney Lynne Torgerson.
