Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Celebrates 12 Years on the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® List

SAN FRANCISCO (April 12, 2021) – Today, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, a leading luxury boutique hotel brand, was named to the 2021 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, which is based on employee feedback of their workplace culture. Marking 12 years of recognition for Kimpton on the prestigious list of extraordinary brands, this workplace honor is a testament to Kimpton’s award-winning culture of inclusivity and heartfelt care, where every employee is encouraged to bring their authentic self to work every day. 



“Our people are hired for their heart, intuition and authenticity, and I believe wholeheartedly that they are what make Kimpton a best-loved boutique hospitality brand around the world” said Mike DeFrino, CEO of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants. “At Kimpton we are committed to embracing diverse perspectives and creating a work environment that encourages our employees to ‘come as they are.’ While this has been an incredibly challenging year for our industry, we are proud our inclusive culture that fosters human connection has stayed intact – making us not only a great place to work but also a great place to stay.”

As the brand celebrates its 40th year, Kimpton is proud of the thriving culture of empowerment that extends to everyone within the company, from the cooks and servers to the housekeepers and general managers. By embracing Kimpton’s brand ethos of “stay human,” employees are encouraged to act with heart, which carries through to the unique guest experience at each and every Kimpton. Delivering real heartfelt human care to Kimpton guests is only possible if employees are empowered to make thoughtful human decisions and encouraged to always stay true to themselves.



Kimpton is also recognized consistently for its competitive benefits – which include both exciting perks like sabbaticals and fitness classes as well as more meaningful offerings like child and elder back-up care, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, “Bill’s Honor Roll” to recognize children of employees and bereavement leave (for people and pets). In addition, Kimpton continues to support important social issues that are core to the brand’s mission including diversity and inclusion, fighting childhood hunger, and environmental stewardship, making Kimpton a company that employees continue to be proud to work for.

The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, is one of a series of rankings by Great Place to Work and Fortune based on employee feedback from Great Place to Work-Certified™ organizations. In addition to the honor of the FORTUNE Best Companies to Work For list, Kimpton is also proud to be recognized on numerous other Great Place to Work lists including:

• Fortune’s “50 Best Workplaces for Parents” (2016-2019)
• Fortune’s “Best Workplaces in the Bay Area” (2017-2021)
• Fortune’s “Best Workplaces in Chicago” (2019)
• Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” (2009, 2011-2019)
• Fortune’s “Best Workplaces for Millennials” (2015-2020)
• Fortune’s “Best Places to Work for Women” (2017-2020)
• Fortune’s “Best Workplaces for Diversity” (2016-2019)
• Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index” (2004-2020)
• Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work” (2018-2020)
• Forbes’ “The Best Employers for Diversity” (2019)
• Great Place to Work’s “Best Workplaces for Parents” (2016-2020)
  

To see the full list of the 2021 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For, click here.



With the industry’s recovery in sight, and more than 20 hotels across 25 new destinations in Kimpton’s pipeline, there are currently more than 350 job openings at Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants in the Americas. To learn more visit www.kimptonhotels.com/careers.



About Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants

San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants is the original boutique hotel company, which pioneered the concept of unique, distinctive, design-forward hotels in the United States in 1981. Anchored in one-of-a-kind experiences, Kimpton now operates more than 60 hotels and 80 restaurants, bars and lounges across urban locations, resort destinations and up and coming markets in the United States, Europe, Caribbean and Greater China. Kimpton spaces and experiences center on its guests, offering inspiring design that evokes curiosity to forward-thinking flavors that feed the soul. Every detail is thoughtfully curated and artfully delivered, so that guest experiences remain meaningful, unscripted and ridiculously personal.
 


Kimpton’s employees, empowered to provide heartfelt service and experiences, have built a highly regarded workplace culture that appears consistently on FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list.
 


In January 2015, Kimpton became part of the IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG) family of hotel brands. For more information, visit www.KimptonHotels.com.   
 


About the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list

Great Place to Work based its ranking on a data-driven methodology applied to anonymous Trust Index™ survey responses from more than 650,000 employees at Great Place to Work-Certified organizations across the country. To learn more about Great Place to Work Certification and recognition on Best Workplaces lists published with Fortune, visit Greatplacetowork.com.



About Great Place to Work

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. They help organizations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Emprising®, their culture management platform, empowers leaders with the surveys, real-time reporting, and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. They use their unparalleled benchmark data to recognize Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies and the Best Workplaces™ in the US and more than 60 countries, including the 100 Best Companies to Work For® list published annually in Fortune.



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