{"id":5815,"date":"2021-01-06T21:43:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T21:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2021-01-06T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T21:44:32","slug":"company-culture-from-the-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/2021\/01\/06\/company-culture-from-the-couch\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Culture from the Couch"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5815\" class=\"elementor elementor-5815\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-746af88 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"746af88\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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than I gathered it had something to do with how everyone got along and how the company treated them.\u00a0<\/p><p>Not long after starting my job here, I quickly began to understand what culture meant to this company and its employees.\u00a0 It meant inclusiveness, morale-boosting, pride in our work, and a certain measure in not taking ourselves quite too seriously.\u00a0 There were Friday Fun-days, and potlucks, drones, and flying blow-up sharks to help make out afternoons in the office interesting, waffle Wednesdays, and of course the occasional office challenges that took the concept of getting work done and friendly competition to a whole new level.\u00a0 Almost every week there was something fun or tasty going on and it made for great team building, as well as morale-boosting when the work seemed impossible.\u00a0 There is strong merit in the idea that a happy employee is a productive employee and ETE, as well as its office, sure went to lengths to achieve that.\u00a0<\/p><p>Then came March 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 2020.\u00a0 Friday the 13<sup>th<\/sup>, if you will.\u00a0 Dun, dun duuuunnn!\u00a0 Covid-19 had made its way to Southeast Wisconsin and we were told over that weekend by our leadership that we were going to be staying home and working remotely.\u00a0 We all thought it would just be a few short weeks and then back to our familiar stomping grounds we would go.\u00a0 However, after some time, it became fairly evident that we would continue to be working remotely for the foreseeable future.\u00a0<\/p><p>So now what would we do?\u00a0 How would we keep up with each other and continue the fun and family-like work atmosphere we had worked so hard to achieve?\u00a0 Especially when a great deal of that revolved around our mutual love of food and gathering?\u00a0 Well, we first started by doing Friday Happy Hours after work via ZOOM.\u00a0 We gathered around with our favorite beverage and just shoot the proverbial, you-know-what.\u00a0 In the first several weeks it 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