Company culture, voice appreciation, non-monetary perks…

Another post about profit sharing – and alternate ways to show your contracting firm’s employees you value them. This one is from Matthew Smith, Mapleridge Homes, Chelsea, QC. He was a participant in our recent RenoFocus conference. Thanks for the contribution, Matt!

Company culture, voice appreciation, non-monetary perks are all value adds that we use as well. We would be interested to understand if a small company uses another format that would not create an expectation from the employee at the yearly Christmas party…

In addition we aim for 2-3 team building events as well as picking up the bill for bi-weekly breakfasts and random coffees for site meetings.

As Owners – we need to keep in mind that we provide our valued team full-time work consistency with great working conditions and above competitive wages – we feel that is fair.

Side note – at the beginning of December, CRA requested for us to provide them with invoice entries from 2013-2014 (3,500 of them) of which they now need 170 hard copies. I wonder if I can ask my lead carpenter to give me a hand?!