New office, old chandeliers

We have now officially been at our new office in Fairfield Gardens for one month. As we moved here, it was a big chaos. But it was an organized chaos, like pretty much anything that we do. We transferred all the stuff from the old place and dumped it inside: boxes and computers lying around everywhere; wires, dust, and useless old stuff all over the floors. There was no phone line, no internet connection, no air conditioning… no nothing. But we were happy.

We knew that this place will be our dream office. We sat amidst all that crap and planned where we would place the water dispenser and the fresh fruits, what kind of fountain or waterfall we would install on our stone wall, what kind of fish we would put in the indoor pond that we have, where we would put the new lounge chairs, bean sacks and the Japanese style low glass table.

There was one disgusting thing though. In the ceiling we had two dusty antique chandeliers that according to Ruki were “ugly”, that appeared to me as “grannyish” and for Indika just “yucky”. We wanted to replace them as soon as possible, so we asked the landlord to take them away. He couldn’t believe we didn’t want to keep those precious things. In his mind they should be there because they’ve always been there. Ruki told him we cannot possibly have something we don’t like bothering us every day.

Also the leaders have to move with time. Rather than hanging on to old chandeliers you got to stay updated and choose what suits your style the best.

Ruki explains: ‘Our people are knowledge-workers who don’t treat their work as a job but as a passion. We spend most of our waking hours at the office. That’s why we need to have a working environment where people enjoy spending time and that can trigger their thinking to a new level. We wanted to move to new premises where we can live our values every day. This space reflects our values of passion, no limits, impact and edge.’