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Employee Empowerment Versus Happiness: How the Right Tools Can Help Contractors Succeed

Employee happiness is not always in management’s control, but employee empowerment is a clear path to greater job satisfaction and more meaningful team interaction.
By Alec Thomson
August 4, 2021
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by Alec Thomson

Alec Thomson, founder and CEO of Riskcast, a productivity and forecasting tool for the construction industry. Alec has over 25 years of experience in the construction industry working in various capacities from field engineer to strategist in Skanska USA Civil's corporate office in New York. Alec and Co-Founder Reggie Arichabala designed Riskcast to allow project teams to track labor, material, equipment and job cost in one simple to use system without the need to maintain multiple spreadsheets. Riskcast unleashes the power of real-time data to reduce risk in all areas of performance.  

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