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          business elite canada
        
        
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          JUNE  2017
        
        
          hind the Quebec-based software develop-
        
        
          ment company GSOFT. Known for its tai-
        
        
          lor-made software, and vastly successful
        
        
          products Sharegate and Officevibe (more
        
        
          on both of those later), De Baene—along
        
        
          with cofounders Guillaume Roy and Se-
        
        
          bastien Leduc—sees GSOFS’s company
        
        
          culture is its biggest accomplishment.
        
        
          Considering the company counts Tesla,
        
        
          Apple, and Disney amongst its thousands
        
        
          of customers in almost 100 countries, that
        
        
          is saying something.
        
        
          “Our goal for CultureFest was to celebrate
        
        
          company culture because we believe it’s
        
        
          the key to a happy lifestyle,” says De Baene.
        
        
          “We want to shake up entrepreneurs, the
        
        
          managers, company owners, to wake up
        
        
          and understand that when you put human,
        
        
          you get amazing results,” says De Baene.
        
        
          “It is economically really good, but also so-
        
        
          cially the right thing to do to create stron-
        
        
          ger society and happier human beings.”
        
        
          
            OFFICEVIBE
          
        
        
          Who better than a software company to
        
        
          try to start the revolution. GSOFT’s team
        
        
          of over 200 employees created Officevibe,
        
        
          and employment engagement platform
        
        
          that “enables organizations to improve
        
        
          their work environment for the benefit of
        
        
          both managers and employees.”
        
        
          At the core of Officevibe is an office-wide
        
        
          survey (only five questions at a time) that
        
        
          is sent out weekly to gage the sentiment