Egressive is a business founded on basic principles - strong personal ethic, trustworthiness, providing real value, enjoying life, exercising passions, and a number of others. We're not primarily motivate by money. As such, we might behave in a way that is somewhat unexpected in certain circumstances. The following is an attempt to give you some insight into what makes us tick.

The Greater Good: environmental consciousness and conservation

We at Egressive (and within the Effusion Group as a whole), share an interest in energy conservation, and in constantly improving our social and environment practices, such as minimising waste. As a result, we endeavour to separate paper, plastic bottles, and other recycleables from other rubbish to minimise our contribution to landfills, reusing bottles and paper whereever possible. Furthermore, we do only a minimum of printing. In addition to minimising waste, this practice also reduces costs for consumables such as paper and printer ink.

We also place a high priority on energy conservation and personal fitness/wellbeing. Nearly all of us cycle or walk to work rather than drive - Egressive maintains no parking spaces for employees as we want to encourage this beneficial behaviour.

In an effort to provide further incentives for minimising energy use, Egressive accepts applications from employees for grants to support energy saving capital improvements such as solar water heaters, heat pumps, and insulation.

Work Ethic

Rather than compete unnecessarily with the normal surges of activity within our society, like the scourge of morning and afternoon rush hours, we prefer to adjust our practices to fit into the gaps. For example, we have a policy of leaving for work at 9 am, with the realisation that we'll get to work more quickly and with less irritation (and contributing less to the general congestion of the roads), arriving at work only a few minutes later. As a result, the official starting time at Egressive is approximately 9:15am, and we tend to finish around 6pm unless we've got a major project deadline or something that requires further time, in which case, we do what it takes to get the job done. If anyone requires urgent contact outside of working hours, we can always be contacted by email, mobile phone, or a variety of other means including instant messaging and IRC as most of us have highspeed access to the internet outside the office as well as in.

Due to high degree of technical savvy amongst us, we tend to be able to access important communication from whereever we are - being at the office isn't as important as it used to be... Also, a lot of our work is incident or project based - as a result, we can usually offer very flexible time for those of us who need to be away from the office for some reason. Due to the ethic of Egressive people, we're in the lucky position that we're more likely to have to send people home or tell them: "dude, you need to get out more", than worry about whether they're earning their pay.

The bottom line: we work ferociously, and we compensate for that by playing equally ferociously. We enjoy what we do.