


“It is a real achievement that we have been able to grow the company to this size but maintain a personal touch with all our employees.” While some bosses would never dream of providing employees with a skating half-pipe at their office, as we did in Melbourne, Theodore knows such small gestures make a big difference for our team. “We have a real sense of not only how important the wellbeing of our staff members is but how their energy and enthusiasm is crucial to us fostering a positive work environment. “Usher Group’s family values and support for employees is always at the forefront of operations across the company,” Queensland Operations Manager Brooke Corrie explains. That ability to maintain a family atmosphere despite rapid and ongoing expansion is a credit to owner Theodore Vairaktaris, who started the company as a one-man painting business 17 years ago and loves few things more than family – both his own and his work clan. “One of the biggest focuses at Usher Group is to ensure that everyone feels at home,” one apprentice says, while another adds: “I think it is important for everyone to feel like they are a part of a family.” Usher Group is a big business – 500-plus staff, multimillion-dollar revenues, operations in Australia and New Zealand.Īsk those staff to describe what it’s like to work there though and the word that gets mentioned most often is one you don’t normally associate with big businesses – ‘family’.
