Technology and platform provider plan.com opened the doors of its Douglas based headquarters to more than 15 children for its 2020 Academy Day.

A highlight of the social calendar, the Academy welcomes children of plan.com employees to experience a day in the life at the award winning company, with lots of fun and games thrown in along the way.

Nicola Patterson, director of people experience at plan.com and organiser of the event said: ’The plan.com academy started three years ago and it just keeps getting better every year. It’s always so much fun but it’s also a great opportunity for our children to experience an office environment at an early age - and to find out that it’s not as boring as they think it is.

’As a working parent, I also know that it can sometimes be difficult to balance work and family life, especially during the school holidays. We wanted to create an event to bring the two closer together.’

Kicking off with a getting to know you breakfast, complete with ice-breaker giant Jenga, the day included an office tour where the children got a behind the scenes look at areas such as tech and IT, marketing, finance, sales and customer services.

Challenges were set, games were played, and the children even had a go at designing their very own plan.com logo.

Ms Patterson said: ’It was a great day and I would like to say a big thank you to everyone involved. We have a fantastic team and it was great to get to know our families better to bring us even closer together. Who knows maybe we will be welcoming some of them back as employees in the future.’

Around 90 people work at the firm’s current base at IOMA House, Hope Street, Douglas, but the new offices will be at Celtic House, Victoria Street which is now being refurbished.

The move is pencilled in for 2021.

Technology and platform provider plan.com opened the doors of its Douglas-based headquarters to more than 15 children for its 2020 Academy Day.

A highlight of the social calendar, the Academy welcomes children of plan.com employees to experience a day in the life at the company, with lots of fun and games thrown in along the way.

Nicola Patterson, director of people experience at plan.com and organiser of the event, said: ’The plan.com academy started three years ago and it just keeps getting better every year.

’It’s always so much fun but it’s also a great opportunity for our children to experience an office environment at an early age - and to find out that it’s not as boring as they think it is.

’As a working parent, I also know that it can sometimes be difficult to balance work and family life, especially during the school holidays.

’We wanted to create an event to bring the two closer together.’

Kicking off with a getting to know you breakfast, complete with ice-breaker giant Jenga, the day included an office tour where the children got a behind the scenes look at areas such as tech and IT, marketing, finance, sales and customer services.

Challenges were set, games were played, and the children even had a go at designing their very own plan.com logo.

Ms Patterson said: ’It was a great day and I would like to say a big thank you to everyone involved.

’We have a fantastic team and it was great to get to know our families better to bring us even closer together.

’Who knows maybe we will be welcoming some of them back as employees in the future.’

Around 90 people work at the firm’s current headquarters at IOMA House, Hope Street, Douglas.

But its new offices will be at Celtic House, Victoria Street which is now being refurbished.

The move is pencilled in for 2021.