Tag: culture
April 13, 2021
Why it Pays to Invest in Employee Happiness
Of late, the U.S. workforce has experienced a series of events that has assuredly impacted morale and, therefore, productivity. Some companies may regard investments in employee wellbeing as an unnecessary expense. TCG regards investments for employees as investments in the…
April 7, 2021
TCG Condemns The Recent Violence Against the AAPI Community
TCG stands with AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) communities during this time of senseless bias and hate crimes against them. We are offended by this hateful violence, we condemn it, and we commit to both helping our employees learn…
March 24, 2021
TCG Proudly Supports Local Organizations in Fighting Food Insecurity
March is B Corp Month!
As part of our responsibility as a B Corp,* each year TCG chooses a social cause to support through donations and volunteer work. (Due to the pandemic, we focused on virtual volunteer opportunities over the…
June 30, 2020
Black Lives Matter
TCG supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
TCG supports the protests against police violence.
TCG demands that we individually and as a country recognize and reject America’s racist past and present, in education, in health outcomes, in criminal justice, in…
October 31, 2019
Baby Sharks, Home-Run Dance Parties, and Gov’t Contracting? Lessons on Culture from a World Series Champion
by Peter Fedders, Employee Happiness Associate
All Major League Baseball clubs use analytics these days, and none more than the Houston Astros. The Astros fired most of their scouts and replaced them with data- and video-based analysts. And it worked…
August 12, 2019
A New TCGer Attends His First Spree… And Survives. This Is His Story.
By Hunter Heath
For several months now, my coworkers have encouraged me to attend a TCG Spree. They stressed that, as one of the more than 50% of TCG personnel who telework at least two days per week, it’s extremely…
July 15, 2019
Our High Road Story So Far…
Last year, TCG made a pledge to be a High Road Employer. A High Road Employer supports a set of principles developed by the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) that encourages businesses to better serve their employees and the world…
April 29, 2019
Spree (n): An Unrestrained Indulgence in or Outburst of an Activity
TCG Sprees had a fast start in 2019. The first event of the year was a Charity Spree at Arlington National Cemetery. TCGers volunteered to help clean up thousands of wreaths that are placed at veterans’ gravestones in mid-December.…
April 22, 2019
TCGers Plant Seeds to Reap Future STEMers
Spring is in the air! Beneath our feet, microbes called streptomyces release chemicals as they awaken and warm up. Pollen germination is activating and hydrating and pollen tube emergence has started.
And, obviously, it’s also FAIR season!
Last year, TCGers…
January 16, 2019
5 Ways Contractors Can Manage a Government Shutdown
800,000: that’s how many Federal workers are currently subject to the government shutdown. It’s often identified as a quarter of the federal employee workforce. According to some estimates, there are 3.7m contractors. A quarter of that is 925,000 — as…