"Welcome home". When you receive a brochure from Quattroemme Costruzioni, a company founded in 2011 by Marco Mura, this is the sentence on the cover. Not just a slogan, but a company philosophy that applies in all areas. The Quattroemme “house” is the one that will be built or renovated after having conceived and imagined it together with the customers, but it is also the company itself, a group of 25 people united by a single goal.
And it is no coincidence that the company convention organized by Quattroemme on 18 June ended precisely with this sentence. A day together in the magnificent location of Is Morus Relais, in Santa Margherita di Pula where, after more than 10 years of activity, the company stopped to look each other in the eyes, admire and celebrate each other. All together: owners, employees, collaborators and families, including children.
After a welcome breakfast, everyone got their badge. No role specified, just the person's name. And while the children had fun with the animators between inflatable games and magic shows, QuattroEmme's family gathered in a room to see together the “film” of these wonderful 10 years.
Marco Mura recounted the beginnings of this adventure when, after a long apprenticeship, he decided to give life to his creature. There was no strategy, there was no office, there was no equipment, there was no truck. There was only a customer's first down payment. To use a metaphor related to construction, it all started by placing the structure of the house on three solid and highly resistant pillars, a boy who was 34 at the time, the foreman, another boy who was 27 and who was a driver and a third of 40 master of finishing. Tore, Edoardo and Giancarlo: three men who since that distant day of 2011 had espoused the cause of Quattroemme and who during the convention, as well as many other employees and collaborators, were able to express in words what they have experienced over the years. The fourth pillar, always present since the beginning is Monia, Marco Mura's sister. “When I get up in the morning I'm happy to go to work” one of them confessed several times in private to Marco. Can there be better gratification for an employer? Marco Mura assures not.
But what are QuattroEmme's cause, dream and ambition? What is the driving force that has transformed this hard, complex and tiring work into a physical and temporal space in which it is possible to feel fulfilled and gratified? Create together with the customer the house of his dreams and change the vision of the construction company in Sardinia.
Involving families allowed partners to know what their mates are doing during a working day, to appreciate its value and understand its importance. It seems trivial and obvious but it is not: how many times it happens to return home after work and to be too tired to share the daily joys that the same work - if done ethically and in a group perspective - is able to generate? Rarely and this is why the company has decided to organize a dedicated moment.
After the convention, in which moments of fun, energy and emotion alternated, the whole QuattroEmme family sat at the table to share once again the happiness of being part of a united, cohesive team in which everyone supports the own colleague.
An event, the QuattroEmme convention, which is part of the perspective of a modern concept of a company, whether building or not. There are no bosses and subordinates, owners and employees. There are people, all important and indispensable, each with specific skills, who want to win together.