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March 31, 2009
Company named one of West Michigan’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For
For the second year in a row, TDS Metrocom® has been named one of West Michigan’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For by the Michigan Business & Professional Association.
“It’s an honor to be named one of the area’s best employers,” says Dave Wittwer, CEO and president of TDS Telecommunications Corp. “We take great pride in offering employees a dynamic, fast-paced work environment that’s both challenging and rewarding.”
To be selected a 101 Best & Brightest Company, entrants provide details about their efforts in the following areas: employee communications, community initiatives, compensation and benefits, diversity and multi-culturalism, employee education and development, employee engagement and commitment, recognition and retention, recruitment and selection, and work-life balance.
What makes TDS one of the best places to work, according to Mark Neistat, TDS’ local market manager, is an empowering environment where employees can determine actions that will delight customers. He says, “TDS offers an extremely motivating and empowering environment to work in.”
TDS provides telecommunications services to businesses in Michigan and in 29 other states around the country. The company offers a suite of communications services including voice and data solutions, business phones systems, and hosted Internet Protocol services.
“We are proud to do business in Michigan and honored to be selected one of the area’s top places to work,” Wittwer concludes.
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TDS Telecommunications Corp. markets communication services to business and residential customers in 30 states through its brands TDS Telecom® and TDS Metrocom®. With nearly 1.2 million access line equivalents in service, TDS Telecommunications Corp. connects customers to phone, broadband, and digital television service in hundreds of rural, suburban, and metropolitan communities. TDS Telecommunications Corp. is the eighth-largest wire line company in the nation; employing approximately 2,730 people. The company is headquartered in Madison, Wis. Visit www.tdstelecom.com and www.tdsbusiness.com for more information.
TDS Telecommunications Corp. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. Telephone and Data Systems™ is a Fortune 500® company that provides wireless, local and long-distance telephone, and broadband services to nearly 7.4 million customers in 36 states, through TDS Telecommunications Corp. and U.S. Cellular®, its 81-percent owned wireless subsidiary. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Chicago, Telephone and Data Systems employed 12,500 full-time equivalent employees as of Dec. 31, 2008. Telephone and Data Systems is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TDS, TDS.S). For more information, visit www.teldta.com.
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