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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Church Mutual Plans To Reopen Campus In Sept., Cautiously: ‘I Don’t Get A Second Shot At This’
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:31
	Publish Date:		2020-06-23 06:31:00
	Description:		Businesses large and small have had to make major adjustments during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the region’s largest employers, Merrill-based Church Mutual, sent almost all of its employees to work from home in March. Church Mutual is the nation's largest insurer of religious organizations. Now, the company has targeted Sep. 8 to allow some employees to start returning to their offices. WE talked with Church Mutual President and CEO Rich Poirier about managing a big company during a global pandemic. Poirier said the first hints of the size of the situation came in March. “We kind of scrambled our fighter jets and said, ‘this thing’s going to spread countrywide.’ It’s going to have to be something [where] we have to be a leader, a thought leader, through words and deeds, not only for our policyholders, but for our people,” he said. “Treated it like a disaster. Treated it like a bomb threat, or if you had a hurricane or tornado that took out your building. We started building plans in
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