The Construction Source

THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA “Employees are welcome to talk to leadership,” he explains. “If they want to talk to Peter DiGaetano, they can feel free to reach out. If they want to collaborate with other departments, we welcome that. We’re a very flat organization. We’re not this tall vertical company where you have to scale a ladder to get to somebody and get information.” “We’re very open,” he says. “That speaks a lot to the confidence that the leadership has in the people that work for them.” Jerry says that Buttcon is the perfect size to make their structure work. They have roughly 120 full-time employees, which means they have the manpower in-house to take on almost any single project, but they are not so large as to become impersonal. “A lot of companies can’t offer what we offer because of their size,” he says. “We’re the right size to make people feel welcome. People can feel like they’re truly connected to the rest of the company and that they can make a significant contribution. I believe that’s truly important to making projects successful.” It’s not just employees that benefit from that internal cohesiveness – Buttcon’s clients see and appreciate it also. Jerry can speak to that directly. “When I was a client, I was able to deal with the President, I was able to deal with the chief estimator, and I was able to deal