Social committees help create a collegial atmosphere among employees

Moving a company can be hard on its employees, especially if it entails leaving one municipality for another.

When Tulsar Canada made the move to Brantford, Ont., in the spring of 2017, it offered enticing relocation packages to the 50 employees who were with the company at its original location in Kitchener, Ont. But the company also recognized that not everybody would accept the offer (about 32 did), and that it had ambitious plans to grow. Wanting to maintain a healthy corporate culture, there was a need to ensure new hires melded seamlessly with the existing.

Forming a social club was key to fostering the collegial atmosphere desired.

“When you are with the same people for eight hours a day, it makes the day more pleasant to do that with people you enjoy being around,” says Holly LeBlanc, a buyer with Tulsar Canada and a representative of the company’s social club. “We all work hard all day, but it helps to have fun things to look forward to; it lightens the atmosphere.”

Holly estimates about half of Tulsar’s 100 employees have joined the social club, but several others are participating and evaluating if it is something in which they want to be involved.

And the activities in which they engage are varied.

Some are for the good of the community. It has launched food drives to support the local food bank, hosted a raffle to support a family at the women’s shelter (they actually raised enough to support two families) and will be participating in the Big Bike Ride for Cancer.

Others bring a little fun into the workplace, such as potluck dinners, barbecues and having an ice cream truck come to the company’s facility just east of Brantford.

There are also field trips intended to bring people together, such as going to see TFC soccer in Toronto, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the CFL or hosting a family picnic at the waterpark in Earl Haig Park in Brantford.

Looking ahead, Holly and her fellow club organizers are looking at what it would take to put together the “Tulsar Games” or have a carnival on site.

“We are helping to build a team mentality,” says Holly. “It reinforces the work morale and brings morale up. If everybody is in a better mood, you will enjoy your job more and you will have more pride in your work if its’ somewhere you like to work.”

For more information, please visit tulsar.com.

About Tulsar Canada:
Tulsar Canada engineers and manufactures leading edge control systems for water and wastewater applications. We service the municipal, industrial, commercial, environmental, recreational and residential sectors.  Tulsar offers a wide range of products that consist of Wi-Fi-enabled alarms to standard control panels up to fully engineered pump station kiosks for all-weather conditions including classified areas.  Tulsar supports its products with full startup services at our customer locations and provides schematics through our customer portal supporting end users 24hrs a day; accessible by cell phone, tablet or laptop. Trusted by governments, Engineers and businesses to deliver reliable and innovative control systems since 1981.

For more information, please contact:
Kalvin Reid
Senior Consultant, Enterprise
Email: kreid@enterprisecanada.com
Office: 905-346-1233
Mobile: 289-241-7936