[Organizational Culture Committee] Working to create a Beyond organizational culture - First half of the 7th term -

This is Komatsu from public relations!

In April, new members joined Beyond, and the number of employees increased dramatically. Please check out the blog about the induction ceremony here !

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has become commonplace, and we are now seeing many companies offering full remote work. Conversely, since the pandemic has ended, some companies have banned full remote work. Beyond does not offer full remote work, and instead adopts a hybrid system

One of the reasons we place importance on coming to the office is that we communication . Of course, we value daily communication and greetings, but to create opportunities to communicate with members of other departments with whom we don't usually have much contact, the Organizational Culture Committee plans and regularly holds internal events.

The Organizational Culture Committee was created to improve Beyond as an organization. It plans events with the aim of building pleasant working relationships, and provides opportunities for members to communicate with each other. Incidentally, the Organizational Culture Committee is abbreviated to "Soshibun " , and is currently its seventh term .

In April, two events were held as part of the Organizational Culture Committee

*The event is generally open to everyone

Beyond Quiz Tournament

The event was held in early April because 4/4 was Beyond's founding date and members of the Yokohama and Shikoku offices who are not usually in the Osaka office were in Osaka for the company's induction ceremony

The content of the quiz was to get participants to learn more about the company and its members, so we collected a variety of old information about Beyond and received ideas from the members that could be used in the quiz, and created a 20-question quiz, which participants competed in teams

All the teams competed well and it was a close match! I'm glad that the event turned out to be more exciting than I expected. The event organizers also gathered various topics to create the quiz, and there was a lot of new information to discover, which was a lot of fun!

Many of the events we hold on a regular basis are only open to members of the Osaka office, and there aren't many opportunities to hold events with members from other locations, so I personally felt that this was a valuable opportunity

Cherry blossom viewing

This year, the cherry blossoms were late in blooming, so the timing for cherry blossom viewing was perfect, and we were nervous about whether the weather would allow us to go outside or indoors

However, it ended up raining, so the event was held indoors. Beyond has a shared space, so everyone had fun eating pizza and hors d'oeuvres there. Incidentally, last year's event was also held indoors due to rain. (Maybe we're cursed somehow?)

It was a good opportunity to communicate with members I don't usually interact with and new graduates

We'd like to introduce some of the events that took place before April! During the 7th term of the Organizational Culture Committee, we held a Christmas party and a New Year's event

Christmas Party

Everyone enjoyed Christmas while eating cake and chicken. Everyone brought a gift and participated in the event, with a roulette to decide who to exchange gifts with. Everyone had a great time

By the way, I received a gift set of drip coffee packets, which I was very happy about as I love coffee!!!

New Year's Events

In keeping with the New Year's tradition, we ate sweet red bean soup, did a bit of calligraphy, and played Multi-Cloud Karuta (a cloud karuta game created by Beyond for in-house study purposes) at Beyond. It had been a while since everyone had last done calligraphy, and the tension in their hands was palpable.

<Mr. Kashiwagi, General Manager of the System Solutions Department, takes the first step>

The illustration below was drawn by Beyond representative artist Haraoka, and shows the dragon, the zodiac sign for 2024. He drew the dragon with unwavering effort

＜This year's zodiac sign, the Dragon, drawn by artist Haraoka＞

summary

The Organizational Culture Committee will enter its seventh term in November 2023, and although half of the term has already passed, we have continued to carry out regular activities in this way throughout the seventh term

All of the events introduced here are planned and implemented by the Organizational Culture Committee, which holds regular meetings to consider what kind of events would make members want to participate and enjoy themselves

As the number of people at Beyond has increased, there are probably some members from other departments with whom you have little contact, but I hope that you will be able to build better relationships by communicating through various events

We are currently planning further events after May, so as the Organizational Culture Committee we hope to work hard to prepare so that we can create opportunities for communication between members

We will be sharing more details about upcoming events in the second half of this article, so stay tuned!