Best Places to Work 2024 Awards
MIDSIZE COMPANIES #13. United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
Employees in R.I.: 78
CEO and president: Cortney Nicolato
Questions answered by Kevin Matta, senior director of people and culture
How has your company adapted programs and services in response to challenges such as workforce shortages and staff burnout? Through pulse checks, consistent feedback mechanisms and active listening, we remain agile in what we offer to our employees such as offering summer hours to help reduce burnout.
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What role does diversity, equity and inclusion play in your hiring and promotion decisions? Hiring is done with intentionality that includes moving away from traditional language on job descriptions that have been traditionally rooted in white supremacy norms to a skills-first model centered on lived experience as much as educational/degree and prior jobs.
Describe a new employee benefit(s) or initiative(s) your company has launched in the past 12 months. We launched our employee resource groups, which came from our employees’ desires to hold safe and sacred spaces where shared community and identities could come together without the formal governance of a workplace structure and the need to codeswitch.
