In this clip from a 2018 interview with Joe Campolo, Managing Partner at Campolo, Middleton & McCormick, Marty Schmitt and Kevin Edwards talk about how Flexible IT attracts and keeps a younger generation of employees.
Millennials want to come in and feel they can make a difference, understand the why behind the work, and see a clear connection to results. Marty and Kevin walk through what that has meant in practice at Flexible IT — from the small culture touches like Dog Day Mondays, backyard barbecues, and bubble hockey tournaments, to the bigger structural commitments like a real work-life balance and Volunteer Time Off, where every employee gets PTO hours back for time spent helping in the community.
The takeaway: a fresh generation of talent often points the team toward new ways to serve clients that nobody had thought of before.
Flexible IT supports Long Island businesses with managed IT, cybersecurity, compliance, and technology planning, all under the Effortless IT umbrella. We are headquartered at the Long Island Innovation Park at Hauppauge.
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Most of the millennials want to come in and feel that they can make a difference — that whatever efforts they put forth, they understand why they're putting them forth and what the results are going to be. That's really exciting, because these young people can find a different way to do things that we didn't even think about. And now all of a sudden, maybe it's a whole new department that we have available for our clients to use.
From the perspective of keeping them, we try to give them various amenities. One of the things we all do — we have Dog Day Mondays, so people can bring their dogs in. The young people like that. (No cats, no ferrets — just dogs. Maybe pot-bellied pigs.)
We have some beautiful space in our backyard for barbecues and that kind of thing. We have a pretty good work-life balance — we try to make sure that people come in, do their job, and get out. We understand that's a big part of what people are looking for.
One of the things Flexible did a couple of years ago is Volunteer Time Off — every employee gets PTO hours back for volunteering their time to help out in the community. We've seen everyone use it. I use it to coach my son's little league team. People go out, help locally, and then come back and share their stories with us. It's a really cool thing — another little piece we've added over the years to try to make life balance better.
We also have bubble hockey, which is very important. There are a couple of tournaments going on over there where people play each other.
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