Physicians Realty Trust

Physicians Realty Trust is a publicly-traded medical office building REIT that has a 14 million square foot portfolio featuring over 265 properties spanning 36 states. Since its IPO in 2013, it has grown rapidly and earned numerous awards for its quality portfolio, team culture, and investor transparency. The company takes great pride in the culture of excellence it has carefully built over the years—one that benefits both its tenants and partners as well as its staff. The REIT invests heavily in its team and physical spaces. The latter includes a new wellness room, which offers team members a quiet place to regroup. Its collaborative workspace features a break room that overlooks the Milwaukee River. Team members and managers regularly participate in training courses on many topics including leadership and workplace best practices. In the summer of 2019, it launched its Women in Leadership series to provide a forum where leaders both inside and outside of the company are invited to share their career journeys and provide advice on personal growth, leadership, and the value of collaboration. Perhaps most importantly, Physicians Realty Trust prioritizes team involvement in the workplace. Many of its employees lead committees focusing on social, environmental, philanthropic, and health and wellness topics that shape company policies. "Our most vital asset is and always will be our people," says Mark Theine, executive vice president of asset management at the REIT. "We like to say that we "hire smart," a policy that has led to an extremely low turnover rate and chart-topping independent team member survey satisfaction scores."

Prologis

Prologis is the global leader in logistics real estate with a focus on high-barrier, high-growth markets in 19 countries. It has a diverse base of approximately 5,500 customers principally across two major categories: business-to-business and retail/online fulfillment. It points to its culture and talent base as one of the driving forces behind its success—and an employment philosophy that ranges from diversity in hiring practices to ensuring that the company sets the right tone from the top. The REIT has a strong focus on community engagement and new employees have repeatedly cited that as one of the most compelling reasons behind their choice to join the company. Since 2013, Prologis employees have volunteered nearly 54,000 hours through IMPACT Day, the company's annual day of global service. The Prologis Foundation has launched a $5 million global relief fund to provide financial support to nonprofits and community-based organizations on the frontlines, such as Feeding America and the European Food Bank Federation. To date, it has donated more than 1.4 million square feet in 13 markets and $5.5 million in in-kind rent. Employees have also benefited from Prologis' acceleration of its digital transformation in the workplace during the pandemic. It piloted the use of a cloud-based mentoring platform that allows employees to choose mentors or mentees from all around the globe—connections that would have never been made within the organization otherwise. It also launched the High Potential Employees (HiPE) program to expose new entry-level employees to key areas of commercial real estate. Prologis recruited diverse candidates for the rotational program and focused on graduates with science, technology, engineering, and math degrees.

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