Office Sports

Sport at the office…interesting concept right? Well it was brought into Romania by multinational/foreign companies(don’t know that for sure but that’s what they say ) ) and now it’s embraced successfully by Romanian companies as well. The “form” it takes differs from company to company for example, Ubisoft, AMA Romania and Gameloft(all 3 share the same building) employees take benefit of a gym, a pool table, several ping pong tables and a football table machine (I even heard of companies that offer employees martial arts courses – hey you never now when you need a karate chop to sign a contract ) )…pretty cool huh? and all this to keep their men focused. From time to time the employers organise team buildings base mostly on sports themes or strategy games to make/force their men to learn how to cooperate/work together, I’ll stop here with team buildings I’ll write about this in another time:D

Quite recently, after seeing that most of my colleagues showed signs of fatigue and were not giving anymore 100%, our manager decided that a ping pong table and a dart board would relax them a bit and help them focus. Hey it’s better to lose 15 min playing and getting back to work with a refreshed mind than to lose a whole day because you can’t focus….and yes all of this because time is money. I can say that the ping pong table had/has a great success, at least within the male contingent of the company (h’m lemme see that would mean ~ 9 or 10% out of almost 160 employees:)) ). It’s very funny to see how competitive can one get, I’m referring to the fact that we’re always playing to see who’s the best, it’s some sort of fight for supremacy =)) I might add the fact that we tried, unsuccessfully,  to organise a tournament(I’m not giving up on that idea yet).

See you guys at a ping pong match

 

 

Next time’s post: all aboout team buildings and maybe some interesting team building ideas

~ by Kaien on July 11, 2008.