The Satellite Office Experience
If you've been down High St this year you might have noticed that the old Snake Pit opposite Freyberg square has been boarded off and there's a lot of loud noises coming out from behind the crumbling street-side facade. Next door at 35 High St, The Research Agency shares a wall, but mostly windows, to the site. From here we've been watching the demolition progress from organised vandalism to the incredibly skillful use of a (??) multi-tool digger thing to pull down the support beams with suprising accuracy and delicacy. But mostly, it's meant that we've been suffering the desk-shaking, focus-shattering effects of the digger-come-jackhammer as it breaks up the reinforced concrete slabs. It was all getting a bit much for us, so last week we relocated to sunny suburban Birkenhead to work home-office style – with team lunches out on the lawn amongst the fruit trees, listening to old vinyl records (taking turns to get up every 6 songs to flip it or change it!), and car-pooling across the bridge each day – it was a pretty fun and novel way to spend a working week. Here's some snapshots of the TRA satellite office!
New Zealand’s leading rural researcher leaves to start her own herd
If 2012 was the year of engagements and pregnancies, then 2013 is the year where all that prep work is coming to fruition. Last weekend Adrian Stone made an honest woman out of long time partner, Stas, and today we toast to the departure of Arti Badiani as she turns her focus to her impending adventures into parenthood with husband Richard.
Congratulations to both couples, and best wishes for all that their futures hold for them.
(Arti – we promise we'll tell you if we move – we've got the return from maternity leave countdown clock started!)
The good looking and talented team at The Research Agency
With so many talented new people joining the ever-expanding ranks at The Research Agency over recent months, we thought it was due time to wrestle our combined schedules and get together for a team photo. Results below. Big thanks to Robin Hodgkinson at Pixel Industry.
Feel free to email the office if you'd like a hi-res version to pin up on your wall.
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Dylan James, Strategy Manager, New Zealand Post