Last week was Wellness Week at Rakuten Kobo! What's that, you ask? ✔️ 1,200 minutes of virtual wellness spanning 20 presentations & workshops ✔️ Daily Work-From-Home Challenges w/ prizes ✔️ Daily Work-From-Home Challenges w/ prizes ✔️ A (surprise) bonus day off to extend the long weekend 💃💃 If you had an extra day off, how would you spend it?
Working from home can be noisy, we get it! Our "no apologies needed" Zoom policy is perfect for every dog bark, crying child, background blender, and all other distractions. What are some other great WFH strategies you've seen? 🤔 📷: The Pet Collective via YouTube
The long weekend is here! Or rather, it is for us at Rakuten Kobo — extra long, long weekends all summer long are just one of the many perks of working with us. While many of us are staying close(er) to home this year, we're not checking emails so don't bother trying. How are you spending your long weekend?
Our annual summer party picnic looked a little different this year at Rakuten Kobo. Instead of our traditional softball tournament, followed by a celebratory outdoor picnic, we gave all of our employees globally a day off to enjoy a special Kobo Family Day. What did this look like exactly? Well-deserved time off for our employees to relax in a socially safe way with friends, family and loved ones, while enjoying food and drinks on us!
While the full Rakuten Kobo team won't be back in the office anytime soon, we're focused on creating safe, functional and enjoyable workspaces for when we can. Social distancing needs to be part of our office layout and we want to do that in a way that aligns with our corporate culture. Thankfully, our brilliant head of facilities came up with a solution - keeping us safely apart beautifully with living, thriving plants. "With the Kobo Gardens, we wanted to create a space that is warm and welcoming. We're making sure that all the mandatory measures are in place, but still want an environment that fits Kobo's culture regardless of the new layout - so employees can feel comfortable and enjoy the space." - Sally Mansingh, Executive Assistant and Facilities Lead, Rakuten Kobo.
