If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It Anyway: The Evolution of Virtual Payara Day Published on 02 Mar 2022 by Mycah BanksTopics: Fish FoodTagged event, events, HR, news and events, People Team, Virtual Payara Day This Friday is Virtual Payara Day – a quarterly event that looks quite different from our first-ever Virtual Payara Day (VPD) in 2018, despite the consistent success of VPD since then. Once we kick off a recurring event like this that receives glowing results, isn’t it easy to publish our template and rest on our Continue Reading
Seizing the Moment: Engagement during Disruption Published on 04 Aug 2020 by Mycah BanksTopics: Fish Food The unplanned worldwide disruption of this year has proven more than ever the importance of a strong workplace culture. Businesses that were forced to shift suddenly from office-based work to a diaspora of homeworkers have had to rethink fundamental behaviours like collaboration, performance management, and tasking to name a few. The suddenness of this change, Continue Reading
Tips for Internal Communication Published on 01 May 2020 by Mycah BanksTopics: Fish Food Communication is key. We all know that tired axiom, but so much that goes wrong in a business can be boiled down to a failure to communicate. What’s more, during the current disruption, many businesses have made a dramatic shift from office-based teams to working from home, requiring enhanced or even overhauled communication strategies for Continue Reading
Payara Week 2020: Madeira, Portugal Published on 24 Mar 2020 by Mycah BanksTopics: Payara Events, Payara Life Although every Payaran is currently working from home in response to Coronavirus, the whole team is still buzzing from Payara Week, held on the stunning sub-tropical island of Madeira. While this is our fourth annual Payara Week, it’s our first time hosting the event outside England. Flying everyone out to Funchal, Madeira gave the whole Continue Reading
Core Values: Polaris of Company Culture Published on 20 Jan 2020 by Mycah BanksTopics: Payara Life Walk into any of the silicon-valley behemoths or trendy start-ups and there’s a good chance you’ll see a colourful mural of inspiring words on the wall, an ever-present backdrop for the team as they work on objectives from the most minute to the highest level. Core values — along with mission and vision statements — Continue Reading
Christmas Festivities at the Malvern Office Published on 19 Dec 2019 by Mycah BanksTopics: Payara Events You might have noticed that Payarans will make lots of excuses for a good time, and the energy of Christmas and New Year is as good of a reason as any to let down our proverbial hair for a bit of fun. On 6 December, Payarans in our UK office celebrated the upcoming holidays with Continue Reading
Payara Sponsors Marine Conservation Society Published on 09 Sep 2019 by Mycah BanksTopics: Giving Back, Payara Life We are proud to announce that Payara have pledged our support this year to the Marine Conservation Society UK (MCSUK) as Gold Company Members.
Payara Week 3.0 Published on 05 Jul 2019 by Mycah BanksTopics: Payara Events, Payara Life Payara hosted its third Payara Week last month – a week-long internal conference for which we fly in our team from around the world for strategy building across the whole company.
Virtual Payara Day: Our Values Published on 02 Jun 2019 by Mycah BanksTopics: Payara Events, Payara Life “Payarans”. That’s the name we have for all team-members, regardless of whether they work in Payara’s brick-and-mortar offices or whether they’re remote, working from their own home-offices that are spread around the world in diverse places that include Japan, the US, Sweden, Colombia, the Netherlands, Portugal – the list goes on.
