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A huge thank you to our work family
On Saturday 15th October, we had the absolute pleasure of inviting all 170 staff, plus partners, to the stunning De Vere Wokefield Estate – an 18th century Mansion House set in 250 acres of Berkshire beauty.
The reason? To simply say thank you.
After two difficult years through Covid – and none of the usual Christmas parties able to take place, it was just fantastic to bring our work family back together again.
I started the evening with a short speech – focusing on thanking individual members of the team that made this whole event possible, and then expressing our sincere thanks to the whole team – and their loved ones. After all, they have supported our employees when we asked them to stay away – or go the extra mile. We wanted to show each and every one of them just how valued and appreciated they are.
Our work family really has stepped up in our time of need. When Covid hit the world, our entire business adapted and worked tirelessly throughout – and the strength of this business allowed us to support those who needed it. And we thankfully managed to retain all of our staff – not a single furlough in sight – or the need to rely on any government funding.
Why? Because the team delivered when it mattered.
- From our various admin support teams across four businesses – who adapted and embraced remote working technology or shift changes within the offices to ensure we kept moving forward.
- Our management, sales and compliance teams – who travelled to various locations to source emergency supplies, and continued to maintain and support our client relationships so that they had peace of mind, and their life safety systems remained operational. Bearing in mind, many of our competitors had just chosen to shutdown and furlough all staff.
- Our large engineering team – who continued to work throughout: including going to Covid hospitals and challenging environments, but we supported them with PPE – and they supported the whole company.
I look back now over the last two years in total amazement of what we managed to achieve…together. Despite a global pandemic and huge uncertainty around the world, it has been an enormous success story. Senseco alone recorded an incredible 20% growth from 2021 to 2022 and the group business also concluded three acquisitions – bringing sprinklers, suppression and remote monitoring into the group.
Our first acquisition, which concluded at the height of Covid was challenging, but has proven successful. Despite the impossible circumstances of having to wear masks and not being able to shake hands, we managed to embrace this team of new people, communicate that everything was going to be okay – and that the future of this sprinkler business was going to be very prosperous. As has been the case with the additional two acquisitions that followed quickly after.
And that’s why the event on Saturday 15th October was so important. Yes, it was about celebrating success – but more importantly it was about a genuinely heart-felt thank you to the people that made it all possible.
A thank you for loyalty, commitment and support – not just for Senseco and our three additional businesses that now form our group, but for each other. For friendships – some 25 years, and still going strong.
When you have a work family like we have, and we all pull together with a common goal to achieve and support – targets and business plans look after themselves.
None of our competition does work family better than we do.
It cannot be said enough…thank you.
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