Alberta landscaping company the Jansen Group is hoping to help Ukrainian refugees by giving them a place to work. The experience has come with some unexpected communication barriers: several on the crew are deaf. As Sarah Komadina explains, overcoming those obstacles have been a welcome challenge.An Alberta landscaping company, based in Stony Plain, is hoping to encourage other businesses to hire Ukrainian refugees and people who are living with disabilities.
Through Google Translate, he told Global News he came to the job interview with a friend who knows English, and the company hired him.The Jansen Group president Adam Jansen said he wasn’t sure what it would be like to communicate. He first thought he should learn some American Sign Language, but realized because Tymchuk speaks Ukrainian — it wouldn’t all translate.
“Getting their attention on site is not as simple as just yelling, ‘Hey, how’s it going?’ You have to make physical eye contact.”