CPCS named one of Canada’s Top Small and Medium Employers for 2026
Among the nation’s best workplaces with fewer than 500 employees for the fourth consecutive year, CPCS sets the standard for management consulting employers.
CPCS, a global advisor working across the transportation, energy, and infrastructure sectors, has been recognized as a top employer among Canada’s small and medium enterprises (SME). In a labour market where top talent has options—and expectations—CPCS is once again standing out.
What makes CPCS unique (and why people stay)
- Purpose beats platitudes: Our people work on infrastructure that shapes economies and communities. Ask anyone on our team.
- Employee-owned company (and proud of it): Ownership changes how we think, collaborate, and lead.
- Trust flows up, down, and across: We hire great people, give them room to think, and trust them to deliver.
- Global work, locally relevant: Our teams span continents, providing insights grounded in local realities.
- Explore high-impact careers at CPCS.
Why CPCS keeps making the list
Canada’s Top Small and Medium Employers competition recognizes organizations that go beyond surface‑level perks to deliver real workplace quality and long‑term career value.
Four years in a row doesn’t happen by accident. It happens by design.
- Flexible “CPCS days” policy: CPCS allows employees to swap up to 12 statutory holidays for days of importance to them, to a maximum of two per month.
- Hybrid work arrangements: CPCS encourages employees to work at least two days per week in-office and provides $150 annually for at-home office equipment.
- Family-friendly policies: CPCS supports its new mothers (including adoptive) with maternity and parental leave top-up payments, to 70 per cent of salary for 16 weeks. CPCS also subsidizes family expenses for employees who travel, offering $50 per day or $500 per month for childcare.
Discover the full list of reasons for selection.
High-impact careers in infrastructure consulting
CPCS provides infrastructure consulting services to clients across the world in the transport and energy sectors. Our team is deeply invested in delivering high-impact solutions to governments, investors, infrastructure owners and operators, industry associations, and international organizations.
Guided by our core DEEPER IF beliefs, our team believes in having fun tackling hard challenges that deliver impactful results. We’re motivated by a shared purpose: better infrastructure solutions = better lives.
Some of our work across the world:
- Exploring the feasibility of a water-based transport system in Toronto, Canada
- Assessing alternate fuels for bus transit in Lagos, Nigeria
- Developing a national electrification strategy and an implementation plan for the Republic of the Congo
About Canada’s Top Small and Medium Employers
Read the 2026 competition press release.
Canada’s Top Small and Medium Employers recognizes the top small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that offer the best workplaces and forward-thinking human resources policies in Canada. Editors compare organizations using the following criteria:
- Workplace
- Work atmosphere and social
- Health, Financial & Family Benefits
- Vacation and time off
- Employee communications
- Performance management
- Training and skills development
- Community involvement
The 2026 winners were announced in this special magazine published by Mediacorp Canada Inc. Detailed reasons for selection for each of this year’s winners, as well as additional stories and photos are accessible via the competition homepage.
Further reading on life at CPCS:
- Explore high-impact careers at CPCS
- CPCS named a top employer in Canada’s capital region for 2026
- CPCS and its attractive total compensation package
- CPCS, an employee-owned company with global reach
