Nov 3, 2019
Holder Construction Response
5yThank you for sharing your feedback. Holder’s associate growth strategy involves promoting and hiring internally. To ensure we have a pipeline of associates available to step up and fill vacant positions, we give associates great responsibility and valuable experience early on in their career. This responsibility inherently comes with longer hours, but not at the expense of work-life balance. Holder encourages all associates to take time each day and utilize PTO throughout the year to unplug and recharge to avoid burnout. We are sorry to hear you felt intimidated and unable to do so, and we encourage associates to have conversations with their manager should workload become unmanageable.
Holder is the leading data center contractor in the country, and they comprise 28% of current and past projects in our portfolio. We are proud to be trusted by numerous blue chip clients to construct their highly complex and critical infrastructure. The remaining 72% of our project portfolio consists of diverse product types in various markets including higher education, aviation, hospitality, and corporate and commercial office buildings.
Company leadership is dedicated to tackling the lack of diversity within the construction industry and at Holder. We have assembled a dedicated team to lead our diversity and inclusion initiative, and on-going, company wide inclusion training. Holder has a dedicated diversity and inclusion officer, who solely focuses on increasing the diversity in our offices and on our job sites. Our D&I officer directly supports our diverse Holder associates, many of which we recruit directly from several HBCUs across the country. Additionally, Holder has established a community foundation to support social justice with an associate advisory board.