Undeniably, working from home has changed the way several things work at Agoda, including how Yogoda, our yoga Agoda Life Group, conducts weekly yoga practice. We used to have instructors come into our local offices for a one-hour company-sponsored session each week, but during working from home, we’ve moved the sessions online and identified the preference for shorter sessions.
About six months ago, I had no thoughts about working for Agoda or moving to a foreign country 2,533 km away from home. To be more precise, 3.8 hours flight time.
I never expected to work in the HR field, but it’s been the job of a lifetime! In fact, I fell into it by accident after I had a chance to speak with Rob Rosenstein, Agoda’s co-Founder and then CEO.
Meet Thamarong Wanarithikul, a man who has spent his 8am almost every day for one year on a pedestrian bridge in Bangkok, capturing the lives of random strangers in the back of pickup trucks with his camera. This series of photos turned into 8 a.m. his first solo photo exhibition earlier this year.
With millions of users each day and the amount of money Agoda could lose each second the system is down, it seems like the weight of our responsibility shouldn’t allow for failure at all. How then could we “fail like a boss” if the stakes are so high? Let me tell you how.
Fast forward to 7 years later in April 2019, we are celebrating our first anniversary of coming back to Tel Aviv from Thailand. After spending almost 4.5 years living in Bangkok, having our ups and downs, meeting incredible people, travelling, surviving a monkey bite, and having a baby – we came back home.
A year ago, we moved to Bangkok after a long time in the US (16 years for me, 27 years for my wife and their entire lives for my kids). It wasn’t a planned move. Unlike most folks who plan meticulously to experience living abroad as expats, we did things like we do big things.
As a solo traveler, Lynette’s ideal trips are different from most people. Whether it is staying with a local family in Colombia, skydiving in the Czech Republic or climbing amid nature to Machu Picchu – one of the charms of travel for her is the opportunity to turn precious experiences into everyday lessons.
When Aaron Moy first hopped on a 20-hour flight from New York to Bangkok two years ago, he never imagined that he’d be leading Agoda’s UX Research team in Bangkok in a few months. “Back then, I was just a curious traveler with no prospects to stay in Thailand long-term.
If you’re an Indonesian-speaking customer who has ever called Agoda’s Indonesian hotline, you might be surprised to find out that the Customer Experience Specialists supporting you are actually based in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. With bookings from our Indonesian customers growing everyday.
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