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Struggling to get used to new quarantine home office? Long-term remote working is new for us too. We put together few tips for our Sygic team on how to keep your productivity when working from home.

We want people to be happy at Sygic. Therefore, in August "Fresh & Happy Newsletter" we continued with supplying our people with some tips to help them increase their satisfaction.

The end of August also means the end of our „summer refreshment“ – Fresh summer initiative. This year we have dreamt of traveling places, and we enjoyed yummies typical of various countries: American hotdogs, Adriatic ice-cream, Italian tiramisu, or typical Slovak fruit dumplings.

We believe everyone should be happy at work and everyone can do something about it. However, we realize it is not about cool offices, free fruit or table football, but rather about meaningful work and good relationships. This is why our HR team has created the initiative Fresh & Happy Newsletter, which regularly brings tips for a happier life not only at work.

For us the beginning of summer isn´t just about light traffic and afternoon coffee on the terrace, but also our favorite Fresh Summer initiative.

You know we consider company values more than just web-page claims. And while summer could represent offseason for some, we try to utilize hot summer days to organize events that combine business with pleasure – that is to have fun and build a team, but also enhance innovation, teamwork or problem-solving.

At Sygic we try to live and advocate our values; therefore, we support projects, which are aligned with them. We invited young developers from the project OpenLab to our office, which aims to contribute to the reform of education in Slovakia.

Innovation is one of our core values. At Sygic we are aware it is not enough to hang the values on the wall in the meeting room, so we strive to live them every day. We organized Innovation Days for the 13th time already. Innovation Days are our hackathon, where each of us can bring up and idea to improve our both product or internal projects and work on them for the whole two days. Every year, many of these ideas are implemented into our products and get to our customers.

They say you should never look back. But we like to do it anyway. Because what seems like one small step taken every day turns out to be a tremendous path at the end of the year. So we look back, count our blessings and then look forward to everything that is ahead of us for the next year. But not before we have some fun.