In line with HP's Year of Engagement, I was assigned to be the "ICON" of one of the many initiatives (in laymen's term: extra-curricular clubs/organizations) of our company - Life@HP (also known as Fun@HP). This initiative promotes Work-Life Balance to the whole HP workforce. This afternoon (August 6, 2008), I dressed up as
CHUCK - the guy who virtually has every access to classified and sensitive government information. Consequently, Life@HP is giving everyone access to join any of the 9 clubs under it namely Shutters (photography), Invent Productions (video making), Jam@HP (music), Groove@HP (dance), hOOps (basketball), Badminton Club, Bowl@HP, Inpire@HP (outreach programs) and J-Club (Japanese culture).
We had a floor-to-floor (7th, 11th, 14th, 18th @SMPC Ortigas) campaign encouraging people to sign-up and join the group of their choice. Though it was embrarrasing at first, the whole experience was fun because, mostly, I dealt with folks I already know. Besides, I know that other initiatives (like Recruitment Team which I am also a part of, haha) will also push someone to do exactly the same thing that I did, hehe. In the end, one ICON will be declared as winner. I hope that the prizes are worth all the "humiliation" I encountered earlier hehehe.
So, if you're an HP employee who wants to have work-life balance - REACH OUT and BE ENGAGED. :)
