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[Photos] Skyscanner integrates fun at work with barista-standard coffee and ping pong tables

As one of the leading online travels brands, Skyscanner’s core values lie in having pride of work. Speaking to Human Resources in this exclusive; Pamela Knaggs, marketing manager (Singapore and Malaysia), Skyscanner emphasises the vital role of employee feedback in creating a productive culture.

How does creating an innovative and interactive workplace help with the company culture?

Our core values as a company focus on having pride in our work, work-life fulfilment, collaboration and a ‘master-teach-learn’ philosophy of constant improvement and learning. These values are at the heart of our office layout and design, our people-related policies, and how we work as a business.

They also reflect and support our hyper-growth environment, and are aligned with our mission to ‘create workspaces that inspire our staff to do the best work of their lives’.

The workforce experience at Skyscanner really sets us apart from the competition. We’re a high-growth, fast-paced business. From Skyscanner’s perspective, we need a workplace environment that supports that – one that allows for cross-country, cross-continent collaboration, remote working and much more.

Our offices around the world are painted in vibrant colours of cyan, citrus and pink; and this brings to life the energy and passion of a start-up, whilst showcasing our passion for creativity and innovation.

With similar design concepts consistently used across our 10 offices worldwide, visiting employees are able to feel that they are in a familiar work environment – even if it might be the first time they are visiting a particular office. This allows them to very easily be comfortable albeit in a new environment, and get in the groove of working.

We are also looking to new technologies to make office life easier. These include meeting room management, desk occupancy tools and other systems that can collect data that helps to analyse how our staff are currently using our spaces and, at the end, determine how to make them better.

Video conferencing facilities have also been installed in all meeting rooms, enhancing the interactions amongst teams around the world.

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