Making Work Fun and Meaningful

Here’s a company that embodies dedication to its employees. In turn, employees are dedicated to the business of running the catalog and supporting its mission of sustainable, environmentally friendly growth.

In fact, from the clothing recycling programs it runs to the donation of 1 percent of its annual revenue to environmental causes, Patagonia’s hallmark has been doing more with less. In order to grow the business and sustain these environmental programs, “Patagonia’s [people] have to be smarter, faster and better than everybody else to make it work, because they don’t have huge marketing budgets,” Chris McDonald, executive vice president and general manager for Abacus North America, observes about his client. “They accomplish more using less than any company I’ve ever seen.”