To better-plan and balance the home- and work-life, an office close to home was what I was seeking initially; so that I could spend less on commuting, and more with family. But what I got in return was amazing, and beyond my asking.
Not just close enough to call it 'walk-able', it has all the best things an employee can ask for, put together. The woOw factor is the flexible timing. Like any other corporate office, we are required to stay in office premises for 40 hours a week but, the check-in and -out timings are not rigid, as long as one is able to keep up the deadline. This gave me a lot of flexibility to attend to my kids and their home work, make-up the PT meetings at school promptly, fix the leaking tap, re-fill groceries, visit bank, or any other task that otherwise would have called to apply for half-a-day's leave.
The 200+ that are employed here are young spirit, though remind me that Iam a decade older [may be Iam the only one who is dressed in saree most of the time] still, they make me feel young. The usual de-stressers are the carom, tt, and fussball. The bigscreen of the plasma TV for the cricket lovers, is definitely quotable. We have a few serious cricketers who would make up to challenge the internal teams to the out-doors, during week-ends, of-course. The latest in-line is the IRC ---Impelsys Runner's Club. Meet you at the Bangalore Midnight Marathon in Dec !
Within office space, we are very happy for it is fun to work in such an ambiance. Every Monday, the HR team brings to us something amazing, true and inspiring stories to get rid of the Monday blues and to energize the team for the day and for the week ahead. Mid-week, we get to know more about a couple of colleagues through the culture of 'know your colleagues' whom, we otherwise would have known as just 'Hi-Bye' friends. Come week-ends and the much awaited 'Fun-Friday' with mind-twists like: scrambles, caption content, crazy captions, crossword puzzle, picture puzzle, guess the celebrity, jumble words, and many more to relax. Just that we guys find it challenging to balance with the week-end project deadlines against the tempting prize gifts of the contest.
At times there are other events that make us 'feel-at-home'. Ethic day, birthday celebrations, festival celebrations and so on. Now, looking forward towards Impelsys' first ever Halloween Party. Employee satisfaction survey is conducted so that voices of the employees are heard. The candid input are considered for fixing problems that generally demotivate people.
The best part of my office is that there is no hierarchical seating. This means that the new floor where we recently moved has the management and the rest of the employees sit together in an open layout without any cabins separating the staff from the Boss. There is not even the cubicle separation that would normally be built around an employee. There are just big-long tables with teams seated facing each other across. There is no such thing as formal environment in our office and we are always having some fun event or the other. This is the reason why we see ourself full of life, even when we have to work to exhaust ourself to meet the critical (at times un-realistic) deadlines. All these help to improve relationships and in-turn productivity.
Overall, a great place to work at!
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