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Which MSP boss was struck by lightning? The best Oxygen 250 ice-breakers

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Oxygen staff by Oxygen staff
26 January 2024
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Which MSP boss was struck by lightning? The best Oxygen 250 ice-breakers
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8. SoftwareOne refers to its 9,250 employees as “Swomies”

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Software and cloud solutions giant SoftwareOne opted to remain a standalone public company in January 2024 after a six-month ‘strategic review’ ended in no sale. That may come as a relief to its 9,250 employees, or “Swomies” as it calls them.

Discover where the Swiss outfit ranked in Oxygen 250 here.

Bonus fact: SoftwareOne isn’t the only Oxygen 250 company to brand up its employees, with boxxe staff known as “boxxers” and Daemon’s as “Daemonites”.

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