EarthCon Consultants Reviews

What is obvious to me is this review was by a former employee that has left with some negative feelings toward EarthCon and I take this very seriously. There is no doubt we have deficiencies as do all companies. When we hear constructive criticism we do our best to respond and make adjustments because we value our employees greatly as they are clearly our greatest asset. As with other comments about EarthCon I will take this one to heart and will do my best to consider it in our planning and execution of the business. One of the areas at EarthCon that we take pride in is our flat organizational structure and our below industry average overhead costs as a percentage of our net revenue. We benchmark this yearly with our peer group and have always been in the bottom third. Is there room for improvement? Always. But these attributes have allowed us to remain in a very strong cash flow position despite the general economic environment in which we operate. At EarthCon we have very few vice presidents but all either work directly with clients and/or bill time to projects, including me. Our mantra has always been to have an external focus and every single senior member of our leadership team has external responsibilities, including marketing and sales, technical work for clients, making presentations at conferences, etc. On a final note, we do indeed believe that our three pillars of success are our employees, clients and company. Each have to exist and be successful for us to provide a platform for our employees to serve their clients. While I understand the sentiment that if you take care of the employee and client pillars the company will take care of itself but that has not been my experience in my 25+ years in the business. All of them are important. Taken to the extreme we could work for our clients for free, which would certainly be a benefit to them (for a while anyway). Or we could pay our employees significantly higher than the industry competitive salaries that we currently pay and that would be beneficial for the employee, again for a while. But both of those actions, even to a lesser extent would mean we would no longer exist as a company. The point of our emphasis on the three pillars is to consider each in our decision making and do our best to find the right balance. I recognize that at times one of the pillars will benefit more than the others because it is not a perfect world.