2021: Our Year in Review

When we wrote our 2020 Year in Review this time last year, we reflected on how the descent of COVID-19 affected our daily operations, our definitions of "team culture" and "togetherness", and—you knew this was coming—life as we knew it. When we wrote our review, we poured one out for 2020 and thought to ourselves, "Eurgh, glad that's over." So long, these uncertain times!

Well, you know what happened. The world stayed weird. The tech industry in particular planted a flag in the sand about remote-friendly work being not the future, but the here and now. We leaned into that shift by expanding our team footprint all the way to the shores of the East coast. Meanwhile, in May, we re-opened our Springfield, MO-based office for local team members and laughed our way through the occasional Zoom-related tech difficulty. (Thank you, clients, for laughing along with us.)

But despite our small victory of breathing life back into our then-very-dusty Mostly Serious headquarters, COVID-19 stayed—and our communities continued to suffer. So we mourned. And even though we grew in every imaginable way in 2021, some days felt harder than any we experienced in 2020.

This 2021 Year in Review is about all the good stuff—a year's worth of steps and leaps forward for our team and agency—because we want to take an intentional minute to honor everything that got us through. So settle in, breathe easy with the knowledge that 2022 is on its way (and yes, this is a threat: 2022 better be good), and read about all the happy, best-foot-forward moments that went down in our world this past year.