{"id":9100,"date":"2016-07-07T08:14:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T08:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:47:48","slug":"siteground-open-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/siteground-open-air\/","title":{"rendered":"SiteGround Goes Open Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, after a massive growth<\/a> in the number of SiteGround employees, we held several separate team building events instead of one mega gathering. You may have heard all about our fancy beachside customer care<\/a> and tech team buildings<\/a>. But what you missed was an almost business-like meetup of our Marketing, Dev and Creative teams, where we brainstormed ideas about the perfect format of the next SiteGround team gathering. Not surprisingly – brainstorming doesn\u2019t sound as exciting as jumping off a yacht, does it? One year later, however, now that we saw the idea born there come to life, there is not a single doubt that it was worth every splash we missed.<\/p>\n

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The Idea: SiteGround Open Air Festival<\/h3>\n

It all started because all past team building ideas were falling short. We needed a new plan on how to gather over 300 SiteGrounders from several offices in different cities, all in one place, engage them and make something memorable, not to mention us keeping our 24\/7 customer services steady in every way.<\/p>\n

What our collective creative mind conceived then was to set up a whole SiteGround camp for a couple of days and throw our own full-swing SiteGround Open Air festival. In line with our philosophy to craft everything ourselves, though, we did not want a third-party to do it for us. All festival activities had to feature and be run by members of the SiteGround team. We wanted it to be for us, from us and to highlight our own talent, because we just have so much.<\/p>\n

The Theme: Share. Play. Enjoy.<\/h3>\n

What we do at work every day at SiteGround actually comes down to these three things: we share skills and knowledge, we play with new ideas and challenges, and we enjoy the results of our work. The idea was for all activities during the festival to revolve around the same things and show every member of our team how truly amazing the people they work with are. We were going to share our passions during workshops, play our favorite games and enjoy lots of music and opportunities to have fun and dance, because we just love to do that.<\/p>\n