Meet a Happiness Engineer: Khyati
Khyati Gala is a Happiness Engineer based in India. She shares her journey at Automattic, from applying to getting the job and contributing to our progress in hiring more women in her area and around the world. Read more about this video series here. Continue reading Meet a Happiness Engineer: Khyati
Engineering Happiness as a parent
We often hear about the benefits of remote/distributed work as being able to travel the world and work from anywhere with an internet connection. Something I feel that needs prominence would be how this can help when you have a “caretaker” type role – for me, this is as a parent, but it isn’t limited to just that. My journey to working at Automattic accelerated due to … Continue reading Engineering Happiness as a parent
Unusual schedules as a Happiness Engineer
Having flexibility in your job is awesome, but with flexibility comes responsibility. Not only in the work itself but also in our daily lives, having a balance between your personal and work activities. Working at home implies there is no physical boundary between your work and personal life. In an office, you might be able to leave work behind when you exit the office, but … Continue reading Unusual schedules as a Happiness Engineer
Meet an Enterprise Happiness Engineer: Shannon Smith
Shannon Smith is an Enterprise Happiness Engineer with WordPress.com VIP. She delivers content solutions to some of the biggest names in media, marketing, and enterprise. Shannon has over 15 years experience in open source web development. She is a long-time supporter of diversity, accessibility, and internationalization, and was a WordPress Montreal community organizer for seven years. Shannon is also a hiker, poet, and mum of … Continue reading Meet an Enterprise Happiness Engineer: Shannon Smith
Meet a Happiness Engineer: Hari Shanker
Hari Shanker is a Happiness Engineer from India who’s helping WooCommerce customers build incredible stores. He’s 100% engaged with the local WordPress community in Cochin, and brings all of his passion and empathy to the rest of the world as well. He loves the equal opportunity available at Automattic. No matter the language you speak or the color of your skin you can make a … Continue reading Meet a Happiness Engineer: Hari Shanker
Life as a WordPress.com Happiness Engineer and a parent
So you’ve heard about this new cool and amazing job called Happiness Engineer. Now you are wondering if it would be possible to reconcile being a parent of young children and working from home for this awesome company. Look no further 🙂 Continue reading “Life as a WordPress.com Happiness Engineer and a parent”
Working as a nomad
Nomad, remote worker, digital nomad, location independent – there are many different terms for it nowadays! Whatever you want to call it, it’s the lifestyle I lead and I am lucky enough that as a Happiness Engineer with Automattic I’m able to work from anywhere! My name is Anna, and you can get to know me better by checking out my blog at meander.co.nz Over … Continue reading Working as a nomad
A work schedule of flexible predictability
Working remotely at Automattic means you set your own schedule. This does not mean you can decide on a whim when to work and when not to work (sorry, mom). Instead, you have full authority to choose your working hours, as long as you do so with at least 2 weeks notice. This allows us to offer consistent live chat coverage, while still keeping a … Continue reading A work schedule of flexible predictability
So You Want to be a Happiness Engineer, Huh?
As I’ve been vocal with my friends, family, and anyone who would listen about my career at Automattic I ended up having a lot of people asking me about what it takes to be a Happiness Engineer and if it is something they could do. Most of the time I would give them a quick description and could usually tell by their reaction if they … Continue reading So You Want to be a Happiness Engineer, Huh?
A Day in the Life of a WordPress.com Happiness Engineer
Working at Automattic has truly been such a blast! When I describe my job to my friends, they have a hard time believing that it’s for real. Continue reading “A Day in the Life of a WordPress.com Happiness Engineer”
Happiness Everywhere 