Are More Professionals Moving to Smaller Companies?

More Professionals are leaving big corporations for smaller, more entrepreneurial companies. The move allows them to make a greater impact on their companies, colleagues and cultures, while charting their own courses. Although their transitions weren't completely idyllic, none misses the greater prestige and resources inherent in a large construction employer or wishes to return to that territory. They're having too much fun.

Large-construction employer construction executives who are weighing similar construction career moves often hear that working for a small construction employer can be frustrating, arduous or financially unrewarding. But many negative comments about small companies are myths based on stereotypes or sour grapes from jealous colleagues. While these myths aren't new, laid-off professionals still smarting from corporate downsizing or merger and internal politics may be hearing them for the first time.