Foradian Technologies is the worlds leading provider of enterprise software solutions for education institutions. Foradian products and services are used by thousands of educational institutions worldwide for all administration, management and learning related activities. The productFedenais a complete student information system in cloud. User friendly School ERP for the next generation of education institutions.
The other productUzityenables organizations to teach and learn using the power of internet. Uzity is a global university where people have the ultimate freedom to teach and learn anything they want in any pace they prefer.
Flexible timings.
Non filtered internet available full-time.
Multiplayer game in the office after lunch.
Non-compromising Leadership
Saturdays as Innovative Day
Foradian offer flexible timings for the employees to reach and leave the office. Initially, they had also tried the working from home option. But it was a failure and it was better to bring advantages of home-atmosphere to the workplace. So the employees work from office but to make it a win-win situation, they are a little relaxed with the timings.
One has to define a thin-line between being stern and strict. They dont want their employees to feel like they are in a school classroom. They give their employees some lee-way and respect their personal space. They let o their employees access Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Youtube and all other social networking websites during office time. As long as they can manage their time effectively and deliver, they dont intrude.
Like Benjamin Franklin rightly said, Games lubricate the body and the mind. And that lubrication is much required for the employees of a startup to perform at their optimum levels.
employees spend 30 to 45 minutes playing multi-player games in their network everyday. Their present craze is the BZFlag which is open source and highly addictive. In fact, there are times when the directors of the company also join the employees. Such games play a very indirect yet highly significant role in building team-players. Employees gel along better and any formal ice is broken.
Foradian CTO Arvind who leads the entire engineering team never uses social networking. He doesnt waste time browsing internet during office hours. He leads the company silently. So all employees respect his words and commands.
Office timing for Saturday is 10am to 4pm. If there is no emergency or urgent work, they spend the time in training and innovation. However, more often than not, this policy fails, as Foradian is a growing company and have lots of work for the Saturdays. But whenever possible, they make sure to make the Saturday more than just another day at work!
Also, they lack regular team trips, which will be implemented pretty soon. Their dream is to provide every engineer with a dual monitor Mac. Hoping to achieve it in next Financial Year.
They believe that you cant s
2. foradian
Foradian Technologies is the worlds leading provider of enterprise software
solutions for education institutions. Foradian products and services are used
by thousands of educational institutions worldwide for all administration,
management and learning related activities. The product Fedena is a
complete student information system in cloud. User friendly School ERP for
the next generation of education institutions.
The other product Uzity enables organizations to teach and learn using the
power of internet. Uzity is a global university where people have the ultimate
freedom to teach and learn anything they want in any pace they prefer.
3. Five HR policies followed by
foradian
Foradians COO Vishwajith followed five successful policies and practices
in managing the Hacker News Age employees
Flexible timings.
Non filtered internet available full-time.
Multiplayer game in the office after lunch.
Non-compromising Leadership
Saturdays as Innovative Day
4. Flexible timings:-
Foradian offer flexible timings for the employees to reach and leave
the office. Initially, they had also tried the working from home option.
But it was a failure and it was better to bring advantages of home-atmosphere
to the workplace. So the employees work from office but
to make it a win-win situation, they are a little relaxed with the timings.
5. Non filtered internet available full-time
:-
One has to define a thin-line between being stern and strict. They dont want
their employees to feel like they are in a school classroom. They give their
employees some lee-way and respect their personal space. They let o their
employees access Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Youtube and all other social
networking websites during office time. As long as they can manage their
time effectively and deliver, they dont intrude.
6. Multiplayer game in the office after lunch
Like Benjamin Franklin rightly said, Games lubricate the body and
the mind. And that lubrication is much required for the employees
of a startup to perform at their optimum levels.
employees spend 30 to 45 minutes playing multi-player games in
their network everyday. Their present craze is the BZFlag which is
open source and highly addictive. In fact, there are times when the
directors of the company also join the employees. Such games play
a very indirect yet highly significant role in building team-players.
Employees gel along better and any formal ice is broken.
7. Non-compromising Leadership
Foradian CTO Arvind who leads the entire engineering team never uses
social networking. He doesnt waste time browsing internet during office
hours. He leads the company silently. So all employees respect his words
and commands.
8. Saturdays as Innovative Day
Office timing for Saturday is 10am to 4pm. If there is no emergency or
urgent work, they spend the time in training and innovation. However,
more often than not, this policy fails, as Foradian is a growing company
and have lots of work for the Saturdays. But whenever possible, they
make sure to make the Saturday more than just another day at work!
Also, they lack regular team trips, which will be implemented pretty
soon. Their dream is to provide every engineer with a dual monitor
Mac. Hoping to achieve it in next Financial Year.
They believe that you cant solve the employee problems 100%
with innovations like these.. Remember what Colin Powell told The
day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have
stopped leading them.