Our San Francisco office has been up and running for quite some time and I’ve had quite a few BLASTmedia visitors over the last couple of weeks. I was lucky enough to have Kelly and Mendy keep me company back in February, was treated to a visit from Lindsey a few weeks ago for GDC, and hosted Heidi during a leg of Gordano’s press tour just last week.

While playing the gracious hostess I noticed a very interesting habit amongst the BLASTmedia employees – we always leave our office door open. That’s rather interesting considering we’re the only office on our floor to do this.

Every morning when I get off the elevator at the 7th floor of the Hearst Building in San Francisco and every morning I’m always sad to see that every other office leaves their door shut. My solution was to leave our door open and hopefully encourage visitors to our office! I’m not the only one who noticed my habit, it’s been pointed out to me by several different people – Brennan our fantastic landlord at the Hearst Building, our FedEx delivery man, even a random employee of the phone company who was looking for another office suite. My response was always the same, “Why would I shut the door?” I WANT people to come visit our office! I want people to check out our really cool new space and I want to tell people about what I do because, well, I love what I do!

I never mentioned my habit to any of my coworkers, so I found it even more interesting that every BLAST team member who worked out of this office also chose to leave the door open. When I asked each person about this, everyone’s response was similar, “We want people to stop by!” I think this attitude speaks volumes about the BLASTmedia culture. We love people and we love our job! It’s instinct to create a welcoming environment – whether it’s in our office or at a client’s booth at a trade show.

So next time you’re in San Francisco, be sure to stop by our office and say hello. We’ll leave the door open for you!