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The Best Places to Work in 2024
Outside’s 50 best places to work in 2023
Outside’s 50 Best Places to work in 2022
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In a post-pandemic world, workers are demanding remote flexibility, more time off, and generous health benefits. These are the companies meeting that bar and more, while encouraging their employees to live an active lifestyle and allowing them to achieve a healthy work-life balance.
outside’s 50 best places to work in 2021
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In a year when record numbers of Americans were changing jobs, these companies attracted top talent with benefits like paid sabbaticals, all-inclusive ski trips, and free health care.
The 50 Best Places to work in 2019
The 50 Best places to work in 2018
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Powder days and gear bonuses are great, but welcoming environments that prioritize the work-life balance are what really make these companies exceptional.
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What does it take to land on our annual list of the country's best employers? Perks like on-tap kombucha, free gym memberships, and company-sponsored ski trips certainly help. But it's a commitment to fun and supportive work environments that really makes these companies stand apart.
Bipartisan states join forces to support outdoor recreation
Komal Ahmad: The game changer
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Representatives from eight states signed the first-ever Outdoor Recreation Industry Confluence Accords, guiding policy principles for the $887 billion outdoor industry.
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A new generation of runners, skiers, entrepreneurs, activists, surfers, explorers, climbers, and photographers are tackling the biggest challenges on the planet—and they’re succeeding.
living closer to the ground
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In a time when technology governs daily life, one father chooses to steer his family back to the basics, connecting his kids with nature and its tides.
the face of america's oldest ski shop
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Since 1920, four generations of Lahouts have run the iconic Lahout's Country Clothing & Ski Shop, but it was 93-year-old local legend Joe Lahout who gave life to New Hampshire's burgeoning ski community.
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100 companies that believe the secret to success is empowering employees to live bigger, better lives.
the ever-turning wheel of life
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Filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson discuss Samsara, their world tour of mesmerizing images that force us to think about humanity and our relationship to the eternal.
growing season in mendocino
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In Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, participatory journalist Doug Fine wades into the world of legal cannabis farming and comes out with a harsh critique of the war on drugs.
cold plunge
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Your urgent inquiries about the world. Answered. Cold plunged, beached whales, highest human habitation.