Office Finally Completed and Moved In

It has been more than a month since my last update. It has been a super hactic month and I have completed my first month in the new company. It's so much different than my previous layback and "snail" company. What can you expect from an GLC and a multi-national company, right? No complaint here. What have taken place last month?

Well, first of all, I've been working minimum 14 hours daily including weekends (am feeling mentally and physically tired now. Non the less, it has been an interesting first month. The stress level is all time high and my level now is so much different than previous ones. First, was the recruitment. It's not easy to headhunt though jobstreet. I spends days going though jobstreet, request for resume from my short0listed candidates and waiting for them to response. Guess what! 60% of them either reject or the request has expired. Either the economy is so good that not many people want to move on or vise versa. Then, there're the "request expired" ones. I believe they are very comfortable at where they are now. ALthough I'm very sure I request for resume from some of the talented by unemployed candidates. Moral of the story is Malaysian are still in good shape when it comes to employment because I can't able to get anyone turn up for an interview. They don't even want to know how much my company's willing to pay. Good, that save me a lot of budget :-) All I can is that those who turn up, are following up with me closely, hoping they will get the job. Well, I can only hire one person for each position, except Editor.

I'm still looking for candidates to fill DBA, Web Master, Sales Manager, Director of Sales, Editors, Programmer and Office Admin. Anyone interested? I'm also looking for students who's want to earn RM6/hour to do copy and paste text into excelsheet. Interested? Do drop me a line.

Next is the office, finally it's completed and we have moved in from our rented office suite to our permanent office in the heart of the city. As a MSC company, I much prefer our office location than Cyberjaya. Public transport is very accessible. Safety is good since I can see a lot of people working late and security is ok.

Our office is open plan with minimal renovation. All this was done under RM30K with good quality furniture. The only downfall is the centralise aircon shut down at 5.45pm. As a new company, there're a lot to prepare and work on and we have to work late. So without air conditioning, it become very stuffy an hour later. We ended up buying a fan to let the air circulate. If this still doesn't work, then we will opt for seperate unit of centralise aircon. Why? because we are now sharing aircon with our office owner who reside next office.

We bought a fridge for the staff and rented 5 pots of plants for RM100 per month! Isn't that cheap? It cost only RM20 per pot include maintenance from the supplier. I was given a free table plant. That one that use jelly instead of soil. Now the office looks more livelier.

The Meeting Room:


The Office Layout:


Staff cubicle: