seoplus+ is a 48-employee digital marketing agency with clients throughout Canada, as well as in the U.S. and Europe. Founded in 2012, and headquartered at Ottawa’s trendy Lansdowne Park, its target clients are multi-location businesses that need marketing management across different spaces.
“For us, our mission is to make life better for our team, our clients and the community,” says co-founder Brock Murray, who adds that’s why the “Best Places to Work” designation is important. “We take a lot of pride and spend a lot of time making sure our employees are growing. We want to help them develop their careers and enjoy what they do, even if they eventually go on to work somewhere else.”
Murray says the company spends $500 per year per employee on training and has a kudos program through which staff members can give each other public pats on the back that end up accumulating through a point system and can be monetized.
What is your recruiting philosophy?
“We make sure the people we hire are a fit culture-wise,” Murray says. “We look at whether they align with our values, more than what their tech know-how or experience is. We’ve had people start as interns who are now leading teams.”
Job openings
seoplus+ currently has roles for an SEO specialist role and a bilingual content writer and an account co-ordinator.
Vacation policy and leave policy
The standard starting vacation for all employees is two weeks. It goes up to three weeks after three years. The company also offers five sick days and two personal days.
Benefits
For employees and dependents, the company provides dental, vision,
long-term care insurance, and supplemental medical coverage, all at 50 per cent. For employees only, it also provides long and short-term disability benefits.
Wellness initiatives
The team volunteers at the Ottawa Food Bank’s Harvest Farm every year and employees are also allowed to do their own volunteering on company time. There’s a virtual yoga class once a month and seoplus+ hires a trainer to do virtual HIIT classes for the team as well. Employees can access a subscription to Fitbod, an app that helps track workouts and builds custom workout plans for subscribers. Monthly team meetings also include a catered or restaurant lunch for employees. Finally, there’s a budget for mental health wellness and managers are trained to watch for and address signs of mental stress, fatigue and burnout and they hold regular one-on-one meetings with team members to check in on these issues.
Retirement savings
Murray says the company is working on getting a retirement savings plan up and running and, in the meantime, there’s a company profit-sharing plan.
Have fun!
“We do a monthly social event, which might be virtual trivia or bingo,” Murray says. “We also do in-person events such as archery tag or mini-putt or a golf tournament or Redblacks game. We have seoplus+ socials, too, where we invite people from the community to join us.”
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