Do You Want a Collaborative Workforce? Invest in Cross-Team Challenges Published on 14 Jun 2023 by Julia MillidgeTopics: Fish Food, Payara LifeTagged Fish Food In today’s remote working but interconnected business environment, effective teamworking is crucial for achieving organizational success. Team building activities play a vital role in fostering Initiative, Trust, and Community, some of our Core Company values, among team members. An innovative approach to team building is through cross-team challenges, where individuals from different teams come together to tackle shared tasks. Continue reading “Do You Want a Collaborative Workforce? Invest in Cross-Team Challenges “
Parents of Payara: Head of People Julia Millidge Published on 13 Mar 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Giving Back, Payara Life What’s life like as a parent at Payara? Due to our flexible remote-working policy, there is a lot that is appealing about combining parenthood with Payara. When your commute is non-existent, it’s easier to be there for those precious moments. However, when your work and home life are blended, there are challenges! We are talking to Payaran parents about the mix of family life and a career at a fast-paced scale-up business in our ‘Parents of Payara’ series. See interviews from other parents Dominika and Simon here! Hopefully you can find some inspiration, or even just a bit of recognition for experiences shared… Continue reading “Parents of Payara: Head of People Julia Millidge”
Parents of Payara: Senior Marketing Specialist Dominika Tasarz-Sochacka Published on 03 Mar 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara Life What’s life like as a parent at Payara? Due to our flexible remote-working policy, there is a lot that is appealing about combining parenthood with Payara. When your commute is non-existent, it’s easier to be there for those precious moments. However, when your work and home life are blended, there are challenges! We are talking to Payaran parents about the mix of family life and a career at a fast-paced scale-up business. Hopefully you can find some inspiration, or even just a bit of recognition for experiences shared… Continue reading “Parents of Payara: Senior Marketing Specialist Dominika Tasarz-Sochacka”
Parents of Payara: Senior Test Engineer Simon Laden Published on 23 Feb 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara Life What’s life like as a parent at Payara? Due to our flexible remote-working policy, there is a lot that is appealing about combining parenthood with Payara. When your commute is non-existent, it’s easier to be there for those precious moments. However, when your work and home life are blended, there are challenges! We are talking to Payaran parents about the mix of family life and a career at a fast-paced scale-up business. Hopefully you can find some inspiration, or even just a bit of recognition for experiences shared… Continue reading “Parents of Payara: Senior Test Engineer Simon Laden”
Meet Our New Technical Writer Luqman! Published on 18 Nov 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara LifeTagged Community, Fish Food We have a new Payaran, Technical Writer Luqman! He is a Jakarta EE expert ready to bring his insight and skills to Payara. We asked him a few questions to get to know him better! Continue reading “Meet Our New Technical Writer Luqman!”
Growing our Payara Service team – Meet Felix and Elif! Published on 15 Sep 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara Life Payara offers a choice of 24×7, 10×5, or Migration & Project Support provided by directly by our Jakarta EE / Java EE expert engineers. As we grow, that means our Service team grows too. We’ve recently welcomed Felix – from Romania but living in Wales, UK – and Elif – based in Ankara, Turkey – to our team. It is a common misconception that service team members have no technical knowledge, they both explain! Continue reading “Growing our Payara Service team – Meet Felix and Elif!”
Meet Rebekah – Our new People Team Assistant Published on 01 Apr 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara LifeTagged Community, Fish Food, Payara Community, People Team At Payara, we pride ourselves on being a global employer of choice. We have employees in 13 countries, speaking 14 languages and operating across multiple time zones. We work to ensure everyone feels part of a united team, living our values Community, Growth, Openness, Initiative, Trust, Excellence and Passion, across continents. Of course, this takes hard work and carefully planned initiatives. We’re expanding our People team to make sure we can keep up our high levels of employee satisfaction – and continue to make being a “Payaran” special. So without further ado: meet Rebekah, or ‘Bekah’, our new People Team Assistant. Continue reading “Meet Rebekah – Our new People Team Assistant”
Leaving Jakarta, Place for Jakarta EE, Programming – a Remote-First Success Story Published on 28 Jan 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara LifeTagged Community, Jakarta EE, Payara Community Being a remote-first company means our employees can make living decisions based on their needs, rather than their commute. Our brand-new Software Engineer Arie is feeling this benefit. He lived for the last four years in Jakarta, the largest city of Indonesia, and namesake of the programming specifications for Java, used with our product, Payara Platform: Jakarta EE. He was able to move back to his hometown Banjarmasin, South Borneo, because of Payara’s remote-first policy, hiring all employees as purely remote workers. Continue reading “Leaving Jakarta, Place for Jakarta EE, Programming – a Remote-First Success Story “
5 Benefits of Remote-First Companies Published on 22 Dec 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Giving Back, Payara LifeTagged Community, culture The COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses around the world to reconsider their working models. Companies that had never offered employees to work from home were suddenly moving to remote-friendly working arrangements just to stay afloat. The continuing concerns over the pandemic have accelerated the growth of remote work, and it’s predicted that 32% of all employees worldwide will be remote by the end of the year (up from 17% of remote employees in 2019). The pandemic has reshaped the work world, potentially for good. Continue reading “5 Benefits of Remote-First Companies”
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 Payara crew the opportunity for a warm, sunny break from late winter (though it felt more like home to our equatorial crewmember). Continue reading “Payara Week 2020: Madeira, Portugal”
Holding it All Together – The Office Manager Published on 11 Feb 2020 by Sarah RobertsTopics: Fish Food, Payara Life Am I the Office Manager or….. the Administrative Officer, Office Services Coordinator, Administrative Services Coordinator, Administrative Support?………yes, it is all very confusing as there are so many titles for this invaluable role. Continue reading “Holding it All Together – The Office Manager”
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 — have become essential for any business, especially now that the active construction of company culture has become standard. Continue reading “Core Values: Polaris of Company Culture”
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. Continue reading “Payara Sponsors Marine Conservation Society”
Day In The Life Of A Finance Manager Published on 07 Aug 2019 by Sarah RobertsTopics: Payara Life I am the part-time Finance and Office Manager for Payara. My hubby calls me semi-retired as I work four days a week and about six hours a day. My day begins at six as I need to prep and dispatch my hubby off to work, but you don’t really need to know that! Continue reading “Day In The Life Of A Finance Manager”
Fruity Friends Published on 06 Aug 2019 by Julia MillidgeTopics: Payara Life Our health is something many of us don’t really appreciate until we lose it! Continue reading “Fruity Friends”
Interning at Payara Published on 01 Aug 2019 by Jadon OrtleppTopics: Educational Projects, Payara Life This week we hosted James Parish who wanted a hands-on experience with infrastructure and to learn more about how a business works. We were happy to oblige! Below are some of his thoughts on how his time with us went. Continue reading “Interning at Payara”
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. Continue reading “Payara Week 3.0”
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. Continue reading “Virtual Payara Day: Our Values”
Life as a Payara Degree Apprentice in the UK Published on 14 May 2019 by Cuba StanleyTopics: Educational Projects, Payara LifeTagged Apprenticeship Program As an Apprentice at Payara, not a day goes by where I haven’t learned something new and intriguing. I’ve been an apprentice with the company since November of 2018 and the experience is, so far, proving to be one of great worth and one that I would recommend to any post college student with a passion for technology. Continue reading “Life as a Payara Degree Apprentice in the UK”
Top Musical Genres for Programmers Published on 07 May 2019 by Cuba StanleyTopics: Payara Life Being both a programmer and a musician, I find the best way to keep me rolling forward in any situation is to stick the earphones in, smack on a good tune and get lost in the well composed world of (preferably not) spaghetti code and appropriate jams… Continue reading “Top Musical Genres for Programmers”
