Compensation and Work/Life Balance - Anonymous employee Equity Residential Employee Review

First and foremost, thank you for your feedback and thank you for all that you do. As with any customer focused role, not all customers take the time to say thank you with each interaction - and oftentimes when the day gets busy and team members and co-workers are managing their own tasks, unfortunately the thank yous can fall to the wayside. Your comments are a good reminder for us all to pause throughout the day to recognize others. Please know that leaders throughout Equity Residential truly appreciate and acknowledge all of the hard work that goes into managing our communities and recognizes that working in a customer-facing industry like ours comes with its stresses and challenges. While concepts like flexible hours and teleworking can pose a challenge in a business like ours, we continue to explore different ideas and suggestions (a lot of which come from feedback provided directly by our employees). Recognizing our employees is so important to Equity Residential, that our President and Chief Executive Officer, Mark Parrell, reaches out regularly to thank our teammates for maintaining essential operations and supporting our residents. Mark recently shared several company wide messages of gratitude, with one in particular that awarded employees enrolled in our medical plan with a medical premium rebate - which translated to a month free of premium charges. We also offer formal recognition by means of our BTPL coins, onsite award ceremonies, Spotlight awards, and 10 Ways awards, just to name a few, in addition to the shout outs and kudos shared with our teams on a regular basis. Equity Residential has a dedicated Compensation and Benefits Team that works hard to ensure that both our benefits packages and compensation are competitive within the industry, while incorporating a variety of wellbeing components. With that being said, we appreciate you and your focus on both work/life balance and mental health, as we share a similar passion for bringing awareness to these topics. We are committed to offering services and initiatives that will continue to support this important component of total wellbeing, such as our Employee Assistance Program, along with other initiatives and campaigns that promote various mental and emotional wellbeing topics such as anxiety, stress, depression, and burnout. Thank you again for your feedback, we appreciate hearing from you.