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Our Firespring Values: Shared by All

The minute you step into Firespring’s global HQ in Lincoln, Nebraska, you know you’ve entered a special place. 

You’ll be greeted by our welcoming and beloved MOFIs—managers of first impressions. Take a right  into our break room, and you’ll find team members catching up over free coffee, soda or (after hours) beer. From there, you can wander into our spacious hangout area with comfy couches, a pool table and shuffleboard, a mini spa, plus a stand-up meeting spot for our daily Firestarter—all in a space we call the Firepit. 

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  • Team members at an event
  • Team members at a crawfish boil
  • Team members with Firespring water bottles
  • Team members posing at an event
  • Team members in a zoom call
  • Team members with an award at an event
  • Client going down the Firespring slide
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And you won’t be able to miss the huge slide smack dab in the middle, which serves as a quick and easy (and ridiculously fun) way to get from the office area upstairs down to our gathering space. It’s a pretty cool place to spend your working hours, for sure. 

But as much as we love the perks, a cool office space is not what makes Firespring special. Companies don’t make an impact in their communities because of slides or toys or cool stuff; it’s about people who are aligned with one another and focused on making an impact outside their own walls.

We have nice perks, but it’s our shared values that make us a formidable force.

At Firespring, we’ve worked hard to create a vibrant culture that attracts top talent and passionate employees who want to work for something bigger  than themselves. And while we’ve had our fair share  of ups and downs, we’ve been able to sustain it for over 30 years now, whether we’re all congregating together in the Firepit or connecting virtually via Zoom. Post-pandemic, we’ve embraced a hybrid work environment, allowing our team members to work from their home office or a Firespring office, and our commitment to  do good has not wavered.  Here’s how we’ve done it. 

We know—and embrace—our values.

  • Bring it. Every day.
    Bring it. Every day.
  • Have each other's back.
    Have each other's back.
  • Give a shit.
    Give a shit.

We hire according to our values. 

Once we established our values, we brought people on board who readily embraced them—and we continue to do so. At Firespring, we hire first for culture fit and second for skill set. Why? Because we can’t change people after we’ve hired them. We can train them, we can educate them, we can help them develop skills—but we can’t fundamentally change them and how they do or don’t align with our values.

Because we allow remote work, we’ve expanded our talent pool beyond Nebraska’s borders, which gives us even greater potential to find people who fit our culture, mission and values. In fact, 28% of our job candidates come from outside the state. Thanks to our IT team, we have the technology in place to allow workers to safely and securely join our team and work from anywhere they want.

We live our values. 

Supporting our community and nonprofit organizations is a non-negotiable at Firespring. We require each team member to spend a portion of their work hours each month volunteering for a cause of their choice. This is a tangible way we embrace our third value, and we are constantly looking for opportunities to care more and make an impact; volunteering is never a one-and-done deal. It’s embedded in our DNA. 

Creating a dynamic culture cannot be accomplished overnight; it’s an evolving process that requires consistent attention, care and evaluation. 

In the end, the efforts are worth it because we’ll not only have improved the lives of our team members, we’ll have furthered our impact on the world and advanced the causes we so passionately champion. That, after all, is what we’re here for.

 

 

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