Life @ Odysseus

Wall of Love – the wall that creates positive vibes around you in the office, which is loaded with the love of all the employees of the company, where you can speak your heart out and express your love for the Work Place! Every one was befuddled, When the moment came, folks enthusiastically pummel the sticky notes with their lovely comments, gradually piled up the entire wall. The many hues of sticky notes and decorations looked incredible and eye-catching. Accidently remembered the Pushpa Movie theme tag line, so, I rephrased one of the dialogue as “Odysseus naam sun k greek god samjhe kya Travel booking Solutions ka baap hai mein”. HAhAha! It was a great pleasure seeing people laughing, enjoying themselves, and sharing their love towards company. Thank you, Odysseus Solutions, for a Amazing Day!

Shubham Patil, Software Development Team

The day 26th January is a matter of great pride as it commemorates the historic sacrifices that led India to be a sovereign, independent nation. This year, on the occasion of The Republic Day, our HR team had organised a fun filled happy hour having everyone dressed in Indian Flag theme. The event began with a quick fun quiz which was followed by a Tricolor DIY Décor Items or Accessories making activity. Both employees working from office and home participated in this event and it was so much fun to showcase our art and creativity to evoke the patriotic nostalgia and make The Republic Day memorable.

Aniruddha Takle, Software Development Team

Celebrating Christmas & New year @Odysseus Solutions is Magical – Can simply be stated as FUN FUN FUNNNNN TIMEEE …. The most entertaining, rejuvenating and eventful week of the year. It embarks with a beautiful Christmas tree decoration placed in the middle of the reception area. The entire staff engages in decorating the tree by using colorful ribbons, lace, glitters, etc. Another super exciting fun activity to remember is ‘The Secret Santa’ in which surprise gifts are given to your colleagues for the whole week without revealing the identity. To rock the week further, games & other fun-loving activities are organized like celebrating different days with themes-based outfits. It’s one Roller-coaster week that you don’t want to miss. Wishing you all Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year!

Ronak Desai, Support Team

Diwali is festival of lights and togetherness. In the lead-up to diwali celebration we decorated the office with flowers and other ready-made props. Also we made different rangolis with powered colors and flower petals. Everyone gives their best to make an office look-like an elegant classic place with plenty of positive vibes. During diwali celebration we had a pooja at the office to praise god and earn their blessings. Later then diwali gift was handed out to the employees as a token of strength and prosperity for the upcoming year. And the event ended up with flavorful lunch and a lot of memorable pictures. I feel so fortunate to be a part of the exceptional event…Thank you Odysseus Team.

Hetal Vasaikar, Software Development Team

Odysseus Garba night is the most awaited night and on this auspicious occasion employees wear beautiful traditional attires of navratri. This celebration starts with garba that is a dance that honors, worships, and celebrates the feminine form of divinity, followed by party music. After that lovely food arrangements are prepared for us. In addition, everyone did auspicious aarti together. The event ended by cherishing some of the enthusiastic performers with pleasant gifts. I am fortunate to be a part of this night. Thank you Odysseus Team.

Riya Shah, Software Development Team

Odysseus Solutions wishes everyone a very Happy Independence Day! Independence Day celebrations continued to be in hybrid mode where employees working from home and office both joined in for a fun-filled quiz session followed by a Tri-color food preparation activity. It was overwhelming to see the enthusiasm and creativity of employees, here’s a glimpse of some wonderful tri-color food preparations.

Hardika Bhamani, Design Team

Odysseus offers one of the most collaborative cultures I’ve ever experienced. I love the challenge, the thrill, the work and the people here that keeps me going even after 6 successful years of work with Odysseus.It’s good to check yourself occasionally and ascertain whether you’re still happy at certain periods of your career. Yet I feel that I’ve worked with so many clients across diverse industries, and I’ve had such a variety of experiences that I’ve never felt the need to pursue a job with another company. It’s the challenge, the excitement and the thrill that gets me out of bed, and that, to me, is the reason why I continue my career journey with Odysseus Solutions. On this occasion of 16 years of Odysseus, I wish my company huge altitude of success and ground breaking profits in the coming years

Jinu Sam, Software Development Team

Hackathons are the coolest thing to happen with IT industry and more specifically with Odysseus, the event that makes you think beyond the limits or processes. This was my 2nd year of participation in Hackathon and each year it brings different challenges. It is great to team up with people from different departments and achieve a common goal, IDEA. Needless to say, the fun activities along with Hackathon are also as interesting as your ideas. Participate and experience by yourself.

Chintan Shah, QA Team

Our Company has taken several measures to make the workplace safe, including conducting temperature checks and set of questionnaires at office entrances, asking employees to wear masks, placing sanitizers around the workplace, and taking extra care to clean the premises thoroughly. Because of these safety standards I feel safe to work from office.

Harsh Patel, Software Development Team

It is been a pleasure working with Odysseus for the past 8+ years, I have learnt a lot about Travel domain, working under great leadership has helped me to expand my knowledge and opportunities. I must say that I get an equal opportunity to showcase my talents, skills set and knowledge. Environment is very friendly, I enjoy the freedom-responsibility culture, that allows everyone to unleash their potential and work together towards one goal of success. Looking forward to many more years of working with this wonderful company and fellow colleagues.

Riketa Salariya, Software Development Team

I was happy to see an email from our HR Team about conducting fun activities i.e Happy hour. As we were lost in our regular office works as well as the pandemic situation wasn’t letting us think of any such, but thanks to our HR team they came up with such innovative thought by organizing fun activities while we were exhausted in our work from home setup. One more best thing that helped us to keep an eye on our health was the bi-weekly virtual workout sessions. Every session we used to have such an amazing exercise that I didn’t want to miss any of these sessions. My sincere thanks to all our trainers for taking care of our fitness by training us with simple and effective exercises which we cannot forget and will try our best to continue the same and challenge ourselves to stretch our limits.

Balu B, QA Team

#EachForEqual – “There is no limit to what we, as Women can accomplish”. Women’s Day was celebrated with all the power-packed Women in Odysseus, it was an amazing feeling of Oneness. We loved an inspiring session on “Lady – You are the Boss” which everyone felt was a marvelous part of such a strong group of women around. We had an amazing experience which was empowering full of love, strength, and a positive vibe.

Pooja Shah, Content Team

I would like to thank “Odysseus” for making last weekend of January 2020 so much different, fun, exciting, full of creativity and innovation. Hackathon is always fantastic to push you and your team to the limits and prove to yourself what you are truly capable of. It was an amazing experience for us as a team. The task we chose, really inspired our team to try out new approaches and solutions which our company will surely benefit from in the future. Within the 24 hours of the Hackathon, we really had very great insights, we not only learnt new technology but also learnt management of time, resources, leadership and communication skills.

Darshan Solanki, Software Development Team

Twin Day at Odysseus Solutions was one of the most memorable and exciting day for me, dressed-up as hip hop DUDE with my twin partner GAURAB. It was a day filled with enjoyment, my heartfelt thanks to Odysseus for such fond memories.

Om Dave, Software Development Team

As a part of Christmas celeberation week ! The celeberation began with the first Executive Day ! As the day goes on it involved lot of fun activities like ramp walk, Music, and of course surprised with gifts and funny tasks from “Secret Santa”. It was great day and well spent with all fun activities. And this was just the beginning of the week, there was a lot more to come in the following days.

Muhammed Yaseen Shaikh, QA Automation Team

Physical fitness is very important when you are working in IT industry, so I rely on workouts via playing my favorite game “CRICKET”, it is good to play with colleagues! I thoroughly enjoyed hitting so many fours and sixes and luckily we also won the match After a great match, we were super hungry and Odysseus knows very well how to take care of their employees, we enjoyed eating yumlicious tummy filling snacks afterwards @ Kalyan Cafe. All in all cricket playing is no less than a festival for us.

Dushyant Parmar, IT Team

You know you can’t resist the thought of roaming around beautiful beaches in shorts & flipflops along with having sips of sweet coconut water when you think of going on a vacation. It felt like a real vacation when I celebrated Hawaiian day with my teammates & colleagues here at Odysseus. Celebrations at Odysseus stand apart from other occasions you celebrate round the year because it doesn’t let you feel ordinary about events & occasions, you’re participating in. It’s almost been a year with Odysseus for me & it feels like I’ve joined this wonderful organization yesterday. Many thanks, kudos to the HR team & other social committee members of Odysseus Solutions for keeping alive the spirit of Holiday Season and making even the smallest moments memorable and special.

Kaustubh Thakkar, Support Team

Everyone dresses up in most amazing combination of odd outfits. Mis-Match Day is a perfectly imperfect way to dress up. Employees had so much of fun with dance and music in the ramp walk.

Anitha N, Design Team

The Christmas week is the most awaited here @ Odysseus Solutions. The Christmas week is celebrated with different themes and this year one of them was “90’s Bollywood” theme. It was so much fun to be dressed up like one of our favorite 90’s Bollywood Star – Tezaab’s Mohini and K2H2’s Rahul. Everyone’s enthusiastic participation made it an unforgettable day.

Krutika Pandya, Development Team

Since my joining, I’ve realized that Odysseus Solutions has a strong belief to promote a healthy lifestyle for the long-term well-being of the employees. It started with Flu Shot for all the employees across India locations. I’ve witnessed after taking the 1st flu shot for a year, my immune system has become strong and less frequency of falling sick.

Sanjeev Tripathi, QA Team

In India, Children’s Day celebrates the birth anniversary of its first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on November 14. Several interactive activities are organized for the kids on this day. On This day, we turned ourselves into kids by dressing up like school kids with clean shave and trimmed hairs looking cute and adorable, then we had partyyy….. where we shared and created many fun memories, which started with karaoke and ended with Pizza.

Guru Prasad, Software Development Team

Diwali Celebration with office colleagues is one of the good gathering along with our family members. I feel amazing when we make Rangoli, decorate the office & have delicious food. Every year we get different types of gifts.

Bhavik Dave, Accounts Team

There is no great joy than saving some one’s life/soul”. Donation of blood means a few minutes to you, but a lifetime to somebody else. Thank you to Odysseus for organizing and giving us a chance to contribute, I feel highly privileged being a donor/participant

Mrunal Jabre, Content Team

Odysseus Garba night is one of the most wonderful night and employees give their presence with gorgeous ethnic attires. This celebration indulges Festive Music, everyone dances their heart out to the tunes of garba & lovely delicacies of food are arranged. Additionally, at the end of great event, the organization elicits prizes to employees who have given an energetic performance.

Devyani Pandey, Software Development Team