“Child at Work” day in Rome — Expedia Group initiative

For the first time ever, we celebrated our “Child at Work” day in the Expedia Rome office this autumn.

More than 100 people took part to the event:

• 56 kids — ranging from 11 months to 15 years old
• at least 56 parents looking after their children
• 15 internal organisers and volunteers
• 3 different Expedia brands: Hotels.com, HomeAway and Expedia.

Animated Reading — Drawing Branded T-shirts (with Hotels.com and Expedia logos) — Free Drawing — Playing with Electro Dough — Geography games — Foosball Tournament — Angelo the Magician… and lots of food!

What we were most proud of was to have a complete home-made solution, where all the activities and games were completely organised and managed by Expedia Employees!

It was not trivial to coordinate and arrange all the activities, but the great results and the happiness of Expedians and their children repaid our efforts.

TakeAways:
Working with people coming different backgrounds and departments was quite inspiring and it acted as a springboard for the team diversity.
The variety of the proposed games was only possible thanks to the heterogeneous group of the organisers.

Looking forward for other amazing initiatives like this!
Camillo Quatrini (@CamilloOdk) and Ignazio Dadduzio.