Three Trend Micro founders lead 700 engineers to break Guinness World Record

【December 20, 2010, Taipei】Every year, Trend Micro, Inc., a leading content security provider, organizes an interactive, creative, carnival-like engineering camp to encourage its engineers, who sit in their little cubicles staring at computer screen all day long, take a break from the stress of workload. With interesting activities, the event is also intended to inspire creativity and help employees exercise their ability to think outside of box. This year, more than 700 engineers at Trend Micro from around the world gathered in Hsinchu to showcase their innovative ideas and by working side by side, they attempted to break a current Guinness World Record. Together with three founders of Trend Micro, participants played a team game called “mousetrap alignment.” Outstanding team spirit steered them to successfully besting the previous world record of 200 mouse traps by creating the world’s longest queue with 865 ones. It is expected that a new Guinness World Record will be set by the Trend Micro team.

In addition to constant innovation in cloud technology, Trend Micro always endeavors to boost employee morale, create a sense of belonging for its employees and encourage team spirit. And this is why Trend’s three founders, chairman Steve Chang, chief executive officer Eva Chen, and chief culture officer Jenny Chang, got together at this year’s event to cheer their employees up. Featuring various team games and discussions, the two-day engineering camp provided those dedicated IT professionals with a chance to relax and engage in interesting brainstorming and creative thinking. While learning to understand users’ needs, participants also developed team spirit and a sense of belonging through each designed activity.

The event reached its climax as three founders and over 700 employees broke the Guinness World Record for the longest mouse trap queue. “Trend Micro is big warm family. We are thrilled to see our collaborative effort has made history,” Eva Chen said. “Creating a pleasant work environment is a commitment we make to our employees so that they can express their creativity openly and innovate freely. The idea of the engineering camp is to make employee training fun and educational. We ask our engineers to put aside their work to learn some soft skills, which are more important and proved to be beneficial to their work later.”

As Trend Micro chief culture officer, Jenny Chang spares no effort to enhance and develop the company’s culture. “One of team games called the balloon tower made a quite an impression on me. While everyone worked as a team to build a tower with eighty balloons and an 80-centimeter long tape, they would learn the skill of balancing groundwork and performance at work and realize how to produce the best result with cross team effort. I believe each Trender benefited greatly from the camp activities. When they are back to work, they will be able to take much broader view of what consumers want and pay attention to details of their work and collaboration. Our great employees are the backbone of our company and we are very confident about setting more world records in the future,” Chang said.