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The business world is full of advice on how to build a great workplace, where employees love coming in to the office and are engaged, happy and productive.
Senior executives at Sarasota-based Wesco Turf, fresh off an international best workplace award, can add their own guidance. It's a simple reminder that most people, from millennials to baby boomers, do well at work when something is at stake. “Everyone here wants to be a winner,” says Wesco Turf Human Resources Director Ann Roggero. “We are really competitive and want to be on top. If you aren't that kind of person you won't fit in here.”
Wesco Turf has been on top a lot lately.
It was recently one of 35 companies to win a 2016 Gallup Great Workplace Award, based on multiple internal surveys and questionnaires, with responses judged by an outside panel. It also won the 2015 Toro Distributor of Excellence Award for the United States.
And sales growth for the firm, an irrigation, golf and grounds equipment distributor under the Toro brand, was in the double digits percentage-wise last year. It's on pace for at least that kind of growth this year, says Wesco Turf President Billy Gamble. The company, with markets in Tallahassee and the Jacksonville region, in addition to Sarasota, has 140 employees, including nearly 25 people hired in the last two years.
The sales growth is certainly nice, but Gamble and Roggero say the top workplace recognition is more meaningful because it validates what they have set up at Wesco. “It's an indication of how engaged our employees are,” Roggero says, “and how much they committed to working hard for each other.”
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