Business View Magazine - July 2023

97 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 7 PROCON, INC . the staff. We are approximately 50 employees strong. We have an open-door policy. Every single one of my employees has direct access to me. We believe we are an employer who attracts employees. We pay above the market rate. We believe that everybody’s life should improve once they become part of the ProCon team. Once an employee has been here six months, he should be able to look sideways and backwards and say, ‘Wow, things have gotten better for me.’ What we demand from our employees is accountability. We are transparent with our clients. From estimating through the final close-out, we have full transparency. With dollars and cents, we have full transparency with our estimating and how we come up with those estimates. And we have full transparency with the flow of information.” Lemus shared a scenario. “When we have a new employee, my employee will ask, ‘What do I tell the client?’” he said. “The answer is always a very simple one: the truth. If