Today was a moved working day because Hungarian national holiday 20th of August is going to be a Tuesday, and we won’t work on Monday. In our company if it’s a Saturday working day it most likely means that there is a hackathon!
This time I haven’t found a project beforehand that I could fully align with, and the one I considered joining already had a bunch of people. This time I wanted to create something, and learn new stuff....
Luckily this year had another transferred working day, and the tradition continues: our company gifted us with an opportunity to work on some fun projects in this Saturday working day.
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New Year, new transferred working day. Luckily we had the opportunity to do something fun in a Saturday instead of just extending our work week. So we had another Hackathon! 🎉
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In Hungary, around the end of the year, we usually have some mandatory transferred workdays, when we have to work on Saturdays instead of the days around holidays. It’s not unusual for companies to let their workers spend their time in a more fun way, that’s what we did with an optional hackathon.
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