Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 | 6 a.m.
Camden Property Trust is one of the largest publicly traded multifamily real estate companies in the United States. But for the 175 local Camden employees who help lease and maintain some 8,000 Las Vegas Valley Camden apartment units, that big company is reduced to a small family.
Camden wants to know what its local employees needs are, so each year it does a survey and is able to fulfill many requests.
“They give us their opinions, and we act on it,” said Elaine Withrow, Camden’s regional vice president. “They wanted more vacation time; we gave it. They didn’t like being open on holidays, so now we’re closed. … In terms of changing things we can really control, we’re extremely good at that.”
Perhaps one of the biggest recent perks for local Camden employees came when the company sold a subsidiary two years ago. It then took a portion of the profits and gave the money to its employees.
“Every employee reaps the rewards of Camden’s good business decisions,” Withrow added.
Each Camden employee also is put through a mentoring program in the first few months of employment, after which a 3.5 percent salary increase is given. Camden also offers a 20 percent housing discount and access to corporate apartments in each of its markets for vacation use. Withrow also said Camden has had no site layoffs in Las Vegas this year.
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