Culture - Ensoul - Web Development studio, Udine, Italy

a manifesto

Culture at ensoul

this is how we want to live

vision

mission e vision

First of all, we will continue building our company to outlive us.

More importantly, we want our work ethics, based on fairness, inclusivity, respect, adequate salaries, and sustainability, to positively influence other companies of any kind.

Technology, vision, purpose, and knowledge provide us with the tools to finally move beyond the era where muscular, life-depriving, consumeristic work ethics were the dominant mentality.

mission

We aim to do our part to leave a better world behind us.

His includes respecting our workers’ physical and mental health, creating inclusive, accessible products, using carbon-neutral technologies to develop our work, and being fair to the people we work for while being honest with their users. As small as we may be, we take full responsibility for the consequences of our actions.

The toxic #consumerist culture of “it’s for tomorrow” exists because we allow it.

90% of problems and burnouts occur due to meaningless deadlines.

If you want to work with us, it’s about how you work, not who you are:

you can be a mother, a migrant, straight, queer, asexual, anyone. The only thing we will judge is the quality of your work.

Working 24/7 is merely a consequence of poor project management

and is highly discouraged in our company, where everyone stops at 17:00 no matter what.

There are no bosses, no rockstars, no egos in the office.

We talk all the time before making decisions: that’s realism. Our mantra is asking, “Is what I’m saying making any sense?”

We pay for our workers’ education

or we provide it during regular working hours: asking your employees to study in their personal time for your own profit is evil. If you’re afraid they might leave sometime, you’re really not seeing the real elephant in the room.

We don’t have a “company WhatsApp group” because it “kinda feels faster”.

We use Slack, and our workers are not allowed to use it outside of working hours. If you have a WhatsApp group with your workers, you’re invading their life and their personal space.

We avoid fake team-building corporate happiness nonsense like the plague

when we thought about having a pre-Christmas lunch (lunch, not dinner, because you surely have relatives or friends you prefer more than us), we held an anonymous poll on Slack. Enjoy your time as you wish, you’ve well earned it.

We protect our workers’ privacy.

We fired a very famous customer when we discovered he was trying to contact one of our workers to get things done “without telling us”.

We invest heavily in learning and getting ahead in the curves

every three Fridays we close the office for a full day to deepen our knowledge. We study a lot – and go to all conferences we can put our hands on to be always up to date to the next cool

FROM OUR DIARY

We’re an extroverted company: we talk a lot, we like to meet people and learn directly from the masters: though we’re in a lucky time of the human species where you can learn a lot from internet, we definitely prefer talking and meeting and greeting people physically. That’s why we make interviews: we’re eager to learn. Some of those people were friends, some became, and everyone is a master in his/her own craft.