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Erickson Living, headquartered just out- TOP WORKPLACE ERICKSON LIVING


Based in Baltimore, Md., Erickson Living was named to The Washington Post Top Workplaces list in 2016 for its Washington, D.C.-area communities. Additionally, Computerworld magazine named it as a 2017 Best Place to Work in Information Technology.


Erickson Living’s senior vice president of human resources, Joseph Machicote, says that initially, he wasn’t thrilled when a headhunter called him to discuss an employment opportunity at a senior living company.


“I came from the world of manufacturing, and hospitality, and high level dining,” he says. “What brought me here was that every single interview and person that I spoke to was unbelievably nice—that’s the culture here.”


That culture seems to be reflected on career website Glassdoor as well, where Erickson earns mostly high praise for its support of its employees, its career development program, and other compensation and benefits.


Machicote says that its positive work environment is reflected in its company-wide turnover rate, which is 38 percent. If its students and flex workers are excluded, that rate drops down to 28 percent.


side of Baltimore, helps several of its 3,000 high school wait staff get to work by picking them up at bus stops with its community shuttle buses (which are used for multiple purposes at its communities). Or, they’ll buy bus passes for other workers. “Our main objective is to make sure that


we fulfill one of the things that we promised our residents, which is that you will have continuous, consistent care,” said Joseph Machiote, Erickson’s senior vice president of human resources. “So we really go out of the way to ensure that the employees are able to get to work in the least painful way possible, especially if they don’t drive.”


Family Benefits Only 11 percent of U.S. workers receive childcare assistance from their employers, according to a 2015 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics National Compensation Survey. So that makes Silverado of Irvine, Calif. rather unusual. From the company’s in- ception in 1996, staff have been allowed to bring their children—as well as pets—to


A member of an Erickson Living community student wait staff. ISSUE 4 2017 / ARGENTUM.ORG 13


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