Equity Residential reviews

Many, many thanks for your 10 years of service, and for your fabulous review! We’re delighted that you love working at Equity Residential, and that you cited so many of the things we pride ourselves on as a company. As a General Service Director, you have a very challenging job; the fact that you love it so much tells us that you have undoubtedly taken advantage of those training resources you mentioned, aligned yourself with great mentors, seen your own career grow, and paid it forward by developing and promoting others. You make a great point about the importance of recognition. We love to acknowledge and celebrate successes by posting quarterly award winners on Ernie, announcing achievements at regional meetings, and capping off the year with a big awards ceremony - but we are always open to suggestions on how to make day-to-day recognition more prominent. You will be pleased to know that we created a committee with this very mission within our corporate communications department this year. If this is a topic you are passionate about, please reach out to a member of the Employee Communications team or to your local Equity Values Council representative(s) with any suggestions. Thank you again for all of your hard work!

Hello, and thank you for your review. To clarify, Equity Residential and Archstone were never the same company; in 2013, Archstone was bought by Equity Residential and AvalonBay. We always admired Archstone’s people and product, so we were thrilled to welcome so many of their talented employees and beautiful properties into our already strong and well-established company and portfolio. We believe strongly in our core values, which have been in place since we went public in 1993. While we do not plan to re-define ourselves as a company, it is our ever-present mission to continuously raise the bar for ourselves and improve in anyway we can. Archstone and Equity had two very different business models and operating platforms, which is almost always the case when you compare a private company (Archstone) to a publicly traded real estate investment trust (Equity). We recognized before, during, and after the acquisition that these differences would be a challenge for many former Archstone employees to navigate, and while we made every effort to ease the pains of the transition, we also recognized we would not be a fit for everyone. We are sorry to hear that you did not have a better experience with your own transition, and we wish you all the best.