Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers (2026) Magazine - Magazine - Page 55
CANADA’S TOP SMALL & MEDIUM EMPLOYERS (2026)
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$
1,000
health spending
account
78
weeks, maternity
and parental leave
top-up pay
63
weeks, adoption
leave top-up pay
100%
compassionate leave
top-up pay
Rubicon Strategy employees engage in an informal brainstorming session.
together to make sure that clients
are being served with white kid
gloves,” he says. “We’ve created a
culture in the office to support one
another all along the way. Rubicon
works as a cohesive team. Everyone
has everyone else’s back.”
Hired four years ago as an account director — “I was employee
No. 14,” he says — Pascucci has
seen the firm more than double in
size. His professional career began
as an Ontario political staffer in
Queen’s Park and, later, in then
prime minister Justin Trudeau’s
office. He left political work in 2020
to work in government relations,
joining Rubicon in January 2022.
“Seeing the growth and being
a part of the growth speaks
volumes,” he says. “People want to
work here.”
The teamwork spirit is reflected
in the support offered to employees with new families, Pascucci
says. “It allows you to leave and
come back seamlessly. That’s what
puts us ahead of the curve.”