BY SARAH LAI STIRLAND
giving away $50,000!” This display isn’t an excerpt of an afternoon talk show,
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but rather a company event Aegis Living organized last September at its headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. The man in the video (
http://bit.ly/dblotto) described above is Aegis Living founder and chief executive offi cer Dwayne Clark. The celebration, which Aegis streamed live to all of
its staff in its 28 senior living and memory care commu- nities across California, Nevada, and Washington, was the fourth employee giveaway of 2016. A life enrich- ment coordinator in one of Aegis’ northern California
he music is pounding and people wear- ing blue t-shirts with “Dream Big!” in- scribed on them are cheering and danc- ing in a video posted online. “It is the big dream lotto day,” said one man in the video. “This year, we’re
communities won the $50,000 that day. Fifteen other staff members won $1,000. Their names were snatched out of the air by Aegis Living chief operations offi cer Tom Laborde, who stood in a clear booth with hun- dreds of strips of paper swirling around him. Winners had to have worked for Aegis for at least
three years, and the longer a staff er’s tenure, the more tickets they could enter to win the lottery. “Some people might think it’s gimmicky, but this has
a real impact on our people’s lives,” said Rick Karnofski, Aegis Living’s senior vice president of human resources. One of the fi rst things the winner yelled out after
winning the $50,000 was that he was “going to buy a house!” Meanwhile, a maintenance assistant used his $1,000 winnings to become a U.S. citizen. (The whole process, including the naturalization application, travel, and consultation with an immigration consultant costs about $1,200.)
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