The average American spends 90,000 hours at work over their lifetime (source), so let’s hope you can enjoy where you spend that time.  Jackson Sumner is a growing company, and through the years we’ve inhabited several offices. We thought it would be fun to take a stroll down memory lane and revisit our past office buildings. 

Our very FIRST office was in the Executive Arts building which rented out to a lot of small offices to many different companies. It’s a medical office building today – but at one point after us, the DMV was in there. We don’t even picture that office here because it looks huge despite us only being in a tiny sliver of it.

In 1985, we moved into our own building; a cabin style on George Wilson Road in Boone that had apartments in the basement that we rented out. Eventually, we overtook the apartments and the building was added onto, and added onto, and grew and grew. In 2016, we built and moved into a new, two-story building on the outskirts of town with plenty of room to grow.

Our new office building has enough technological marvels to warrant many blog posts – which we’ll get to eventually – but it is marvelous to see how much we’ve grown since our humble beginnings. We know that our offices are important because if our underwriters and support staff are comfortable and happy, you’ll be able to hear it in their voice and feel it with every interaction. After all, you spend more waking hours at work than you probably do at home. You had better enjoy it.

We are fortunate to be a growing company, with great employees who work hard and deserve offices that enhance their experience; so that they, in turn, can enhance yours.

[Also, yes, Wayne Sumner took that bottom photograph of our current offices with his drone camera.]