PEMCO in the Northwest

With stricter hang-up-and-drive laws now on the books, more and more of us acknowledge that texting while driving is dangerous – and something we wouldn't do ourselves. But when it comes to burning shoe leather instead of rubber? A lot of us still say, "Let those thumbs fly!"That's the upshot of our latest PEMCO Poll. In it, 42% of people said they talk, text, or read messages as they walk down the street (that's down from 53% in Full post

 Our employee-nominated October Nonprofit of the Month is Daybreak Youth Services. For the past 40 years, Daybreak Youth Services has been giving Northwest youth treatment and recovery solutions for substance use disorder and mental illness where and when they need it.   Through inpatient and outpatient treatment, psychiatric evaluations, and a holistic philosophy, Daybreak’s approach to recovery adFull post

​We Northwesterners love our mass transit – at least the idea of it. But when it comes to actually carpooling, vanpooling, Swift busing, Sounder or MAX light-rail riding, 94% of commuters say they'll pass, preferring instead to drive themselves to work every day.The reasons? Three-fourths cite convenience, and even with growing traffic congestion, half say getting behind the wheel is still the fastest way to work. Fastest" is a relative terFull post

Our September Nonprofit of the Month is Providence Hospice of Seattle Foundation.  The Providence Hospice of Seattle Foundation funds programs to help people in our community get the hospice care and grief support they deserve – like programs for terminally ill children, special patient needs, case management services, and grief and bereavement services for families.  For more than 30 years, the generosity of donors has enablFull post

 Dear PEMCO,From waking up early and running to make our trains and busses, to trying not to fall asleep at our desks and constantly refilling our compostable cups with coffee … our internship experience was all worth it! For some of us, this was our first internship, but we all agreed PEMCO set high standards of what inclusion should look like in the workplace. Our internships not only challenged us, but allowed us to build life-long conneFull post