By Liz It’s a big week at Pomegranite HQ. Sarah has joined us from Joburg for the week and we are celebrating our fifth birthday on Friday. The days have been busy seeing clients and workshopping our processes as a team. To break up the activity and
By Alex I was firmly convinced that my interview with Liz and Sarah had gone terribly. It was raining so my Devil Wears Prada inspired outfit was hidden by the only rain coat I own (a Shrek-green monstrosity I borrowed from an ex-boyfriend and never returned)
By Sarah A Facebook memory popped up yesterday – the first blog post I ever wrote for Pomegranite, right before I quit my job and joined Liz in the lounge of her little Long Street flat, which we called “the cave”. It was written before we even
By Sarah There must be impressive stats on this – how dogs in the workplace boost morale and make people happier, more relaxed. I’m not going to Google these stats. Know why? Because I feel so happy and relaxed on account of the dog in our
Over the past two weeks it feels like the whole of Cape Town has come down with the nastiest cold - our Twitter feed is full of adults talking about how much they want their moms. Liz (currently in bed herself) has even nicknamed the
By Sarah It’s been a while since we had a proper inspiration day, and it didn’t take long to decide what we were going to do. We needed more plates for our office. Solution: Clay Café. Again. I think it was our fourth visit? It’s a
For our March edition of Inspiration Day, we headed off on an office plant buying mission to Starke Ayres in Rosebank.
Photo from RawPixel By Liz We’re part of a world that continuously pushes us to become better at what we do. But to do that we need to upskill ourselves. For many of us, taking time at the office to learn something new sounds like a scenario
By Alex I love my job, but that doesn’t mean that every day isn’t irritation-free. Anything ranging from bouncing emails, negative client feedback or the internet conking out can completely ruin your day. You also can’t always separate your work and home life, which means that you
We’re all taught that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I think that whoever came up with this idea didn’t wake up at 05:30 to leave home by 06:00 to skip the traffic. But nonetheless, skipping breakfast isn’t great for your
Pomegranite has been back in the office since the 5th of January and so far, we’ve been slowly easing into the New Year. When Riyad arrived back at work on the 12th, the office finally felt complete again, and so we set off on an
By Sarah Image by Danielle Cerullo Running a business can be a lot of fun. It can also be bloody hard, and some days you’re thrown curveballs that stop you in your tracks. I had a day like that this week. I went to a meeting recently – the