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Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants
The Kimpton Hotel chain features 65 hotels, and the company has 82 restaurants in 33 cities. Headquartered in San Francisco and known for their quality and uniqueness, these boutique hotels and restaurants are also known as excellent places to work and have taken positively open-minded positions when it comes to hiring minorities, women, and members of the LBGT community as well. Management for these hotels and restaurants is very progressive when it comes to guests and to employees, and this paper reviews and critiques the Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants in terms of the quality of their management services.
How Kimpton Hotels / Restaurants Treat their Guests & Employees
An article in Fortune.com points out that Kimpton offers six weeks of parental leave, they offer preventative health services for women and hearing and vision care for all employees. Also, Kimpton offers "backup childcare and elder care," and one very unique benefit Kimpton offers is "pet insurance ... [they] even give people time off to grieve if their pet dies" (Fortune, 2016).
In the Great Place to Work website it points out that Kimpton offers up to six weeks for "parental leave" (for partners, mothers and fathers) for several reasons: welcoming a new child (through adoption or live birth). Also, in the "Great Place to Work" website employees from Kimpton were interviewed and 97% said "I can be myself around here." That sits well in terms of the motto of Kimpton ("I can be me").
Kimpton hotels and restaurants offer a "tuition reimbursement" program of up to $1,500...
This applies to classes that are related to employees' careers (greatplacetowork.com). Also, the company pays 65% of full health coverage for dependents of employees and 70% for employees. Dry cleaning, fitness classes, free lunches (daily) and onsite healthcare benefits are provided (flu shots, cholesterol tests, blood pressure screening and "complete biometric screening") (greatplacetowork.com).
On a more human level, in an age when a dozen states' legislatures have recently passed "bathroom laws" that discriminate against LBGT communities -- including North Carolina's recent law (HB2) requiring transgender people to only use the bathroom of their biological gender -- Kimpton Hotels has earned a "100% score" in the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index for 11 straight years (Fortune, p. 1).
Each year Kimpton sponsors a campaign that is designed to generate awareness and money for local agencies that serve HIV-infected patients. Kimpton has raised over a million dollars for HIV charities in the past 20 years (The Advocate). The company formed "K-GLEN" (the Kimpton Gay and Lesbian Employee Network) to offer advice to the company on personnel and community outreach issues (The Advocate).
Kimpton management clearly understands justice and fairness when it comes to welcoming people of all backgrounds and beliefs. In New York City, the Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants team up with the city's HIV housing agency Bailey House (where HIV patients and their families may stay). When a guest books a hotel room at Kimpton over the phone…
Works Cited
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