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MIL is a top place to work

Climbing to #5 among large businesses in the DMV, and #7 for mid-size companies in Charleston, MIL made its highest
ranking so far in The Washington Post Top Place to Work survey for 2023. This year’s award recipients were announced by
the Post at an awards ceremony held on June 15th. On hand for the event to represent the company were MIL staffers Kapil
Prajapati, Nasir Abbas, and Alex Papak. Receiving the 2023 honor marks the seventh year in-a-row MIL has been included
on the list of the area’s top-tier employers. Under this ranking, MIL also earned five Culture Awards from Top Workplaces
including: Leadership, Innovation, Compensation and Benefits, Work Life Flexibility, and Purpose and Values. And through
anonymous employee feedback, we learned alot.

We have leaders that listen. We make it work.
The Leadership award celebrates organizational leaders who The Work-Life Flexibility award recognizes organizations
inspire confidence in employees and the company direction, that have built a culture that enables employees to meet
and who listen to what matters most to employees and the demands of their personal lives while maintaining high
use that insight in decision-making. One of the things our performance. We appreciate that our workers’ schedules are
employees believe sets MIL leadership apart is transparency. busy and full of complex demands on their time and energy.
MIL employees get a look under the hood every quarter as By implementing, when possible, accommodations such as
their project leaders bring staff concerns and suggestions to work from home and hybrid/flexible work schedules and by
the executive level and then report back on how the company hosting family-friendly events, MIL helps our team members
will incorporate their insight and recommendations going integrate their personal and professional worlds. We view
forward. Some of our most successful and impactful programs and value our employees holistically and understand that by
were a result of communication between MIL leaders and helping our employees successfully navigate and manage all
their teams. parts of their lives, we are rewarded with higher employee job
satisfaction levels which, in turn, leads to higher productivity
We transform through innovation. and better overall performance.
The Innovation award recognizes organizations that
encourage new ideas by fostering a culture that supports We’re mission-driven.
and rewards employees reaching their full potential. MIL’s The Purpose and Value culture award honors organization
growth and success is predicated on our ability to successfully that successfully communicate the company mission and
introduce new technologies that benefit our customers while integrate those aspirations into the culture. For MIL, our
at the same time expands our subject matter mastery. We mission to always be People Making the Difference, is
also know that innovation helps to keep employee skills integrated into everything we do to support our workforce
fresh and worker interest engaged. MIL’s willingness to let as they provide their time and talent to exceed customer
employees spearheaded change has led to the adoption of new expectations. In fact, this dedication to doing things in a
and evolving technologies like Robotic Process Automation, purposeful way to build value for both our customers and
machine learning, and AI. our team is now being formalized into a set of principles and
associated actions we call “The MIL Way.”
We’re fair in pay and perks.
The Compensation and Benefits award is just what it sounds Selection to the list of Top Places to Work is based solely on
like—recognition and celebration of organizations that employee feedback gathered through an anonymous third-
provide packages their employees believe are fair for the party survey administered by research partner, Energage, LLC.
work being done and compared to others in the industry. The Washington Post has been awarding local organizations
MIL employees appreciate that we keep salary and benefits for nearly a decade, aiming to recognize companies that
competitive and frequently revisit the marketplace to gauge cultivate support, respect, and employee satisfaction. For the
parity. One way MIL supports equity is through Salary 2023 award year, over 6,500 area companies were invited to
Band Transparency which associates salary ranges with job participate and 541 were surveyed. The top companies were
descriptions to help inform prospective candidates what they selected based on survey responses from more than 147,000
can expect in terms of compensation for each MIL position. employees on topics ranging from employee development to
innovation.
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