@dankmaximus assuming that your company licensing their employees work by using gpl. I can guarantee, that you as an employee at some points basing your work from someone else that use gpl license. If you're sure that you doesn't base your work under someone else project, then just change it.
If you don't want to touch gpl. base it from another written code that's not licensed under gpl.
Or even better "Write code from scratch"
At least that's what i understand abkut license.