The Constitution of ExarLabs

Work with excellence, serve with humility, impact by example.

We will be a software development company where the best professionals work on the most interesting and most meaningful products, doing excellent work. We believe that in this Information Age we carry a special responsibility towards society, and that our company must use its profit, its time and its talent in that spirit. At the same time we represent a culture where family, friendships and community matter more than money.

1.Meaning and value oriented, not profit oriented

Everything we work on must have a crystal-clear purpose. That purpose must conform to this Constitution, must be approved by everyone, and it is not the maximization of profit. Every employee must work on meaningful projects, meaningful not only to the employee but to the company as well. The company must invest its profit into society in a way that is motivating for everyone.

• If a goal does not suit everyone, we look for solutions through which everyone remains a winner

We work in 8 hours, but everyone is free to decide how they spend that time, based on what is most useful for the company. The emphasis is on getting the work done on time, not on the 8 hours passing. The goal of the company and of the teams is to estimate the task as realistically as possible and to take responsibility for it. If the team finishes the task sooner, the team members may freely use the time difference. However, if they do not finish on time, the whole team takes responsibility equally, and works more if necessary.

Everyone's long-term goal is that we neither underestimate nor overestimate the task.

We believe in guided autonomy, where teams receive increased freedom and responsibility in deciding how to solve a given problem.

2.Life orientation

The worker deserves their wages, and our goal is to pay our workers well. Only a well-paid worker can be motivated, can feel important, and can provide security for their family.

We believe that family is a value and stands above money. We help and encourage our employees with children, and mothers after childbirth, so that they can reintegrate more easily after maternity leave.

We support mental and physical health in the same way. We live a culture of giving, respect and honest relationships. Not only our professional but also our personal life must be in harmony with this constitution.

3.Prepared for the Information Age

In this Information Age in which we live, we must be the best on the market. We must learn and train ourselves continuously, be aware of new technologies, and be among the first to make use of them.

We must help those people and companies that are not technically minded, so that they can learn and apply new technologies more easily.

As an IT company we currently have greater economic influence than companies in other fields. As long as this remains so, we carry a heightened responsibility towards everyone, and we are doubly accountable for how we used our opportunities and our profit.

4.Win / Win mindset

We believe in the win / win mindset, where both parties feel like winners. We try to avoid situations in which we make others losers by winning. We live the abundance mentality, where there is enough for everyone to feel like a winner. If a win / win solution is not possible, we will rather choose “no deal”. To achieve this it is enough if only one of the parties thinks with a win / win mindset.

Our community consists of our employees, our contractors and our practising students. Every member must agree with and accept this Constitution, and must try to keep it.

Someone can become a member of the community if:

• They have adequate technical preparation, or are outstandingly talented and motivated to acquire it.
• The leadership accepts them.
• They agree with and accept this Constitution.
• Upon completion of the probation period, which can be up to 3 months.
• They respect the religion of others.

Someone's membership can end if:

• The member freely decides to leave the company.
• In exceptional cases, when the leadership decides that for moral and ethical reasons (personal or work related) further collaboration is not possible.

Roles: Not yet established.

1.Integrity and honesty

Honesty is when we tell the truth, in other words when we align our words to reality. Integrity is when we align reality to our words, that is, we keep our promises and act according to our role. This demands integrity, a whole character, unity with ourselves and with the world.

Integrity also means that we are loyal to those who are not present.

2.Servant leadership

We believe that to be a leader is an honour that must be received with humility. The most important priority of a servant leader is to encourage and enable employees to unfold their abilities, their opportunities and their character.

3.Self-discipline and self-guidance

The soul cannot bear freedom without inner discipline. We believe that true freedom and autonomy can only be realized if we continuously train ourselves with self-discipline, so that we do not stray from our tasks.

4.Synergy

Synergy is a kind of attitude towards cooperation. It is a process where everyone puts their talent and experience into the common pool, and where together they find a much better solution than any of them could have reached alone. The essence is that the whole can be more than the sum of its parts: one plus one can be three, six, or even sixty.

5.Respect and humility

We believe that everyone has something of value worth learning from, and therefore we must respect each other's opinion.

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger.

6.Proactivity and responsibility

Instead of fearing the things over which we have no or little control, let us turn our time and our energy towards what we do have control over. We believe that the real solutions are found by our professionals and not by management.

We take responsibility for our given word and for our work, and we can be held accountable for it.

A client is a person or an organization who requires our services. Someone can only be our client if their needs are ethical and respect this Constitution.

Our clients are not our masters. We must serve them, we must give our time, our energy and our creativity, we must solve their problems, but only if we feel that what they ask is ethical and that they respect this Constitution.

We believe that a given word is binding, and if we promise something then we must keep it. We must earn a client considering us a reliable and professional company.

1.The meaning of ExarLabs