Goa-Canada based Tangentia Technologies has always been a thought leader, be it with Jigyasa corporate quiz or the lockdown inspired ‘Tangentia Talkies’
Where the global COVID-19 outbreak has led to the partial collapse of most essential and non-essential business organizations, Tangentia has risen above the storm and introduced an unique remote employee engagement program namely ‘Tangentia Talkies’ to embark upon the stumpy self-esteem of its employees and ensure connectivity with one another.
“Covid-19 has shown us new ways to work together as a company. ‘Tangentia Talkies’ will be a corner-stone of our new HR engagement strategy. Our team motivation and bonding has been strong during these tough times and one of our mantras for success is to communicate” Vijay Thomas, Founder-CEO, Tangentia Technologies
‘Tangentia Talkies’ is a day-to-day online gathering that is conducted on the Google Hangouts platform wherein an employee is given an opportunity to make a presentation for a brief duration of about 10 to 15 minutes concluding with a quick Q&A session. This unique initiative as its name itself denotes provides a ‘talk show’ like experience” to the participants that begins with a theme song, goes on to start the presentation and concludes with the rolling of final credits and applause for the speaker of the session.
The range of topics that are discussed during these sessions is abundantly broad to an extent that it enables speakers to converse about their passion, enlighten the audience about their surreptitious talents or just articulate upon a topic that could spread awareness in society. Few issues that have been discussed so far through this one-of-a-kind forum are ‘Trust in the Digital Era’ presented by Rajhans Gupta (Sales Manager), ‘Importance of Mental Health’ presented by Malav Kansara (Staffing Manager), ‘Msytery Called Dreams’ presented by Shweta Kandri and many more!
The objective of this initiative is to prompt employees and persuade them to step ahead and engage in open dialogue, maintain every day interaction with their team mates and purge the barrenness of seclusion from their work-life!
It is indeed true that the current times are extremely uncertain and there is no assurance of what tomorrow will hold, nevertheless, Tangentia works tirelessly during these hard-hitting times to discover the balance between its partners, projects and most importantly, its people!
Speaking about this unique initiative from Toronto, Canada; Tangentia CEO Vijay Thomas said “We have been hosting ‘Tangentia Talkies’ every single day since the beginning of April, and I’m proud to say that we have not missed a single one. It’s like an internal TED Talk and we have whole hearted participation from all our team members globally with subjects ranging from Mental illness, Yoga, IOT, Veganism to comedy spoofs on life and life situations. The only thing that is standard is that it ends within 15 minutes and it starts sharp at 6.45 pm IST i.e. 9.15 am ET. We have uncovered a lot of super talented people, especially among some of our new recruits in India. With a lot of hiring in the last couple of months including a few during Covid-19, this was a perfect mixer for our distributed global WFH teams. We believe Covid-19 has shown us new ways to work together and as a company, Tangentia is going to embrace WFH globally in the long run. We don’t see more than 25% of our workforce going back to the office.
‘Tangentia Talkies’ will be a corner-stone of our new HR engagement strategy as our daily virtual water cooler and mini town hall. Our team motivation and bonding has been strong during these tough times and one of our mantras for success is communicate, communicate, communicate!”
