Atria Senior Living Group Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Atria Senior Living Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – You really feel like your making a difference
Good Benefits

Cons – Low hourly pay with few raises and small bonuses
Management can be cluttered and ineffective
Cheap company

Advice to Senior Management – Reward good employees better

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Atria Senior Living Group full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The staff and the residents were the best thing about working for Atria. That's it.

Cons – Had 6 different ED's in four years. The last one wrote everyone up for every little thing and has so far fired three people. She's making her way down the list. This place works you hard, gives little raises, no time off, no appreciation and fires you after years of excellent service. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE RESIDENTS. It's all about dollar signs. Traumatized is a good word to describe working there.

Advice to Senior Management – Management was the worst. You need to start caring about the people that work for you and the residents and what they're needs are. Shame on you for putting your corporation first.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Atria Senior Living Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – We are fully committed to promoting a wonderful life style for our residents. Rewarding and fullfilling work . Every day is different and experiences last a life time. We have a staff that works well together , sometimes we are like a disfunctional family but we always work it out. We work very hard but love what we do and our residents.

Cons – Long hours and sometimes it feels as if our corporation is disconnected from what is happening in the community. Regional management needs to be more focused on the positives of each community and not the failures.

Advice to Senior Management – Have a focus group from communities that include directors not just front line staff. Ask us what we need to continue to grow and keep all staff aware of the strategic direction of the company. We want to be part of the exciting future of our company.

Former Employee – worked at Atria Senior Living Group full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The line staff and residents.

Cons – Where to start...Regional Management, what a joke; Senior Management, want to be treated like Gods; Department Heads, oh yeah liars, sexual deviants, and always ready to step on another person to make points.

Advice to Senior Management – Clean house, starting with department heads right up to senior management or else the bleeding of good employees will never stop.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Atria Senior Living Group full-time for less than a year

Pros – People are nice to work with and seem genuine. Weekly support center meetings make you feel welcome.

Cons – IT depart needs to make better applications using today standards. And listen to employees that have experience.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Atria Senior Living Group full-time for less than a year

Pros – Saught long & hard for PROs and could not come up with a single one

Cons – Work you to death directive comes from Regional leadership
Managers are promised bonus and oppty to advance - neither are a reality
Every day is crisis mode and you're expected to be OK with that - they call it sense of urgency.
A use you up and spit you out sort of employer

Advice to Senior Management – To Regional & above management. If you truly wish to grow in the marketplace take a long hard look at how you treat your community managers. They have no loyalty to you because you treat them like slave labor and issue threats on their jobs

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Atria Senior Living Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Tuition reimbursement
Training, CEU and continuing education opportunities paid for by employer

Cons – Salary employees are subject to unrealistic expectations and have little support from upper management, who seem ill experienced on the day to day functions/realities of working inside the community
High department head turnover rates
Line staff become overworked, budget restrictions and poor pay discourage talented professionals from working for/staying with company which leads to under staffing in departments forcing the department head to work excessively long hours with no compensation.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend more time in your communities. See what a day in the life of a department head is like and use that experience to base your expectations of them on.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Atria Senior Living Group part-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Do offer good facilities and activities for the residents.

Cons – Staffs at the facility I was involved with seems to be steadily reduced. Most expensive facilty in the area ( eastern Massachusetts ) and typically have the highest annual rate increases even with the struggling economy. No flexibilty in resident agreements.

Advice to Senior Management – Management has become desensitized to the strain their costs, increases and inflexibility in working with the residents and their families. Learn to treat them like customers . Several years of ongoing residence will cost hundred of thousands of private pay monies. Show some respect to those that have incurred that costs......

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Atria Senior Living Group

Pros – They give you time to ramp up.

Cons – Work as hard as being self employed.

Current Employee – been working at Atria Senior Living Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Paycheck and they have great health benefits. They also promote from within.

Cons – Upper management is completely ignorant of what actually goes on in the building. What they are aware of they do little to nothing to fix. They are of the "whoever cries the loudest gets fed" mentality and are not proactive about the problems we have. They also consistently bring people into the building that are not assisted living approapriate going over the director of nursing's head. Executive director is in cahoots with the sales team and it's apparent all they care about is themselves and the bonus checks they get from bringing in new residents. They deal with perspective residents like they are used car salesmen making grand promises and telling outright lies just to get them to move in with little to no regard of if our facility is an actual fit for them.

Employee morale is terrible! If we dare complain about anything we are met with open disgust and hardly anything is ever done. Atria loves to put on airs by throwing parties for us and giving away flat screens but on a day to day basis we are we are merely tolerated, not appreciated.

This company doesn't truly care about enhancing lives, they care about enhancing their bank accounts and it truly is a shame.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend