[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
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Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
Can y'all share any team fun event ideas that have worked well for
you during the WFH/pandemic period? My folks miss the natural in-
person interactions that occur in the office, and we could use some
time together to decompress. But, how do we do that remotely? Maybe
you long-time remote teams are already experts at this? Is there an
"awesome-remote-team-fun-events" GitHub repo? Any ideas are
welcome, but I'm particular interested in events with $0-$100 per
person budget and work with team size of 5-20 people. Thanks.
Edit: This is something we'd do during work hours.
Author : pseudobry
Score : 142 points
Date : 2021-02-09 17:25 UTC (5 hours ago)
| themakermark wrote:
| Once a month we pick a fun recipe that can be made in less than 1
| hour and we all cook it together (over zoom) and then eat. We
| have done sushi, sourdough, ramen, pizza etc.
|
| This works well as it feels like a shared experience of learning
| together, in this case learning to cook new foods. Many of us
| continue to make those same foods once we learned.
|
| To make it easier on everybody, we ship any tools or ingredients
| we can and always do it during overlapping work hours.
| Bashmaistora wrote:
| Online board games on a video call is a fun option.
| jot wrote:
| Live Video Escape Room maybe? https://livevideoescaperooms.com/
|
| Or for a different way to think about it try what Podia did for a
| team dinner: https://kindops.com/remote-dinners
|
| At The Skiff Coworking community we enjoy weekly drinks here:
| https://getmibo.com/ It's so much more natural an experience than
| Zoom.
| almost wrote:
| Thanks for posting that! https://LiveVideoEscapeRooms.com is my
| site, part of my attempt to help the customers for my startup
| (A SaaS product for Escape Rooms) weather the pandemic. Online
| Escape Rooms are really a lot of fun, it's so cool to see all
| the creativity in the industry being channeled into crazy
| online games (many of theme featuring live video links to the
| escape rooms, but some also hosted completely online).
|
| I've since also pivoted my startup and created a new product
| (https://TelescapeLive.com/) for escape rooms moving to online!
| ljoshua wrote:
| Shameless (semi-)self plug: my wife loves putting together DIY
| escape rooms, and given the current situation she recently made
| one that can be done completely virtually with little prep:
|
| https://www.thegamegal.com/diy-escape-room-kit-alien-threat/
|
| Five "rooms" (or in other words, five people or small groups)
| that all coordinate via a video call and each have a mini-site
| and individual puzzles to solve that build up to the main
| solution. I think she's pretty awesome and therefore the game
| is pretty awesome, but I'm a bit biased. :)
| brundolf wrote:
| I think it's hard to have meaningful interactions over video chat
| among groups with more than, say, four people. Inevitably one or
| two parties do all the talking at a given moment, and everyone
| else just listens
|
| Something we've started doing at my company is monday-morning
| "random coffee". Everyone gets paired off to video chat with a
| random person for 20 minutes at the start of the day. It's been a
| great way to have some non-work conversation with the people I do
| interact with, and have any exchange at all with those I never
| interact with
| aicarlson wrote:
| The meaningful interaction cap is at around 4 - even for in
| person gatherings!
| https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10905...
|
| Shameless plug, I've been working on solving exactly this
| problem with Mixaba! Everyone automatically breaks into small
| groups of 2-4 every few minutes.
| Buttons840 wrote:
| Tell me more about Mixaba. I've had the same idea. Rather
| than brain storming in a large group, break into smaller
| groups and then mix up the groups periodically. My guess is
| this would lead to faster group consensus and result in fewer
| people feeling left out or that they hadn't been heard.
| aicarlson wrote:
| Sure thing! You can see it here: https://mixaba.com/
|
| I did a Show HN last year but a lot has evolved since then
| :) By breaking people out into small groups you increase
| opportunities for vulnerability and trust-building, and you
| decrease the likelihood that a single person will dominate
| the conversation.
|
| It was borne from negative experiences at a couple all-
| virtual happy hours at the start of the stay at home orders
| in the US last year.
|
| With Mixaba, everyone joins a single event and regardless
| of whether you have 8 people or 800 in the event, it
| automatically breaks people out into new small groups,
| shuffling up conversations and making new connections
| between folks as the event goes on.
| josephorjoe wrote:
| > Everyone gets paired off to video chat with a random person
| for 20 minutes at the start of the day.
|
| i would quit this job sooooooo fast
|
| random, enforced, early morning socializing is so very much not
| my scene
| brundolf wrote:
| I may have exaggerated when I said "start of the day"; we do
| it at 10am, which is the start of the day for some but not
| all. Certainly not early-morning for most people
|
| I'm also sure it would be optional if anyone had an aversion
| to it. It's a small company so we're flexible on that sort of
| thing
| breck wrote:
| - One team member organized an event where everyone contributed a
| song they'd take to an island, we made a playlist, then played
| them one by one in Teamflow, and each person explained why they
| chose that song.
|
| - Another time we did a game where each team member sent a story
| to the organizer, names were removed, then everyone tried to
| match the story to the person.
|
| - There's always guest speakers to present on a relevant topic.
| Easier now that they don't have to travel.
| ianmabie wrote:
| I have a good friend who runs http://barnonetrivia.com - they
| have professional hosts who lead ~hour long live zoom trivia
| games. Questions are creative and original. Can't recommend
| enough - very fun!
| screye wrote:
| We play a lot of Codenames. It is a lot of fun.
| akrolsmir wrote:
| I've been building a list of fun board games to play online at
| https://boredgames.gg!
|
| One of the games I built as well, https://oneword.games, is very
| well suited to work events; it's a casual, cooperative game that
| supports any number of players, so fits neatly into team happy
| hours or "offsites"
| bkanber wrote:
| I always have fun with gather.town. Pictionary in particular is a
| blast.
| politelemon wrote:
| Sadly it seems to block other browsers
|
| >To ensure a high quality experience, join Gather on Chrome!
| bkanber wrote:
| I use gather.town on Firefox/Ubuntu all the time FWIW. Seems
| to be perfectly supported.
| boomeranked wrote:
| We run "trips" to Paris, if you want to bring your team to the
| city of lights! Live footage from Paris, cheese and wine
| delivered, the whole nine yards!
|
| https://www.woyago.com/
| nicolashahn wrote:
| Our team played Among Us during our last team social. I think I'm
| going to suggest Golf With Your Friends next, I played it with a
| different group of people and it was a ton of fun, very silly
| especially if you turn on collisions, jumping, spin, etc.
| pessimizer wrote:
| boardgamearena.com, esp. 6 nimmt, Oh Hell!, Incan Gold, and No
| Thanks seat more than six, are very easy to explain, are very
| fun, and are brisk. Turn the Tide only seats six, but meets the
| other points.
|
| Short tournaments could be fun. The site allows people to be
| spectators to games they're not participating in, and if everyone
| is connected by voice chat it could be a nice shared experience.
| g051051 wrote:
| > My folks miss the natural in-person interactions that occur in
| the office, and we could use some time together to decompress.
|
| Ugh. The last thing I want to do after working all day is "hang
| out" with co-workers. If you're going to force me to participate,
| it better be during work hours, and you can't expect people to
| make up the lost "work" time.
| kurttheviking wrote:
| Terrariums (e.g. https://www.etsy.com/listing/880201016)
|
| We all received a kit in the mail and on a Friday afternoon,
| everyone was guided by an indoor gardening expert. It was a calm,
| pleasant, ~2 hour exercise and I got a fresh plant for my desk
| out of it.
| [deleted]
| jakub_g wrote:
| We sometimes play fun multiplayer games online (+zoom for
| talking)
|
| 1) https://garticphone.com/en
|
| 2) Among Us
| (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innersloth...)
| kroltan wrote:
| Absolutely second on Gartic Phone, it is brilliant.
|
| It is a drawing game, but it has no scoring, so it is very
| welcoming for all skill levels, including zero!
|
| Among Us also has a desktop version if you prefer, but it is
| paid. (cheap though, 10BRL, dunno dollars) (you probably know,
| but to anyone who reads)
| SimonDorfman wrote:
| https://rocketcrab.com/game/justone
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| Mandatory fun is rarely fun. Let people self organize. Allow them
| to take the cash alternatively.
|
| Also do everything in your power not to label people who do not
| want to participate. The worst is when a company has mandatory
| fun, and then kiss your promotion goodbye for not "being a team
| player" by attending an event that doesnt interest you.
| aantix wrote:
| Buy everyone on the team a Google Cardboard VR viewer.
|
| https://arvr.google.com/cardboard/
|
| As the "teacher", take them on a virtual expedition/field trip.
|
| https://edu.google.com/products/vr-ar/expeditions/
| gregschlom wrote:
| But hurry, "Expeditions and Tour Creator are shutting down on
| June 30th, 2021"
| kridsdale1 wrote:
| Google, shutting things down? Woah!
| gizmo385 wrote:
| Sounds like they're just merging it with an existing project:
|
| > To make Expeditions VR tours available to everyone, we're
| migrating the majority of them to Google Arts & Culture's
| free site and application. There you'll also find a vast
| collection of cultural artifacts and stories from around the
| world which will enable everyone to continue exploring.
| However, as Arts & Culture expands the Google Expeditions app
| will no longer be available for download and Tour Creator
| will no longer be accessible as of June 30, 2021.
| easton wrote:
| I wish Oculus (well, maybe not Oculus, but they are the only
| ones with a standalone headset currently) would build
| something like this. Google had good tools for making the
| content (although it'd have to be adapted to be 6DOF), but
| the problem was that you had to either have every kid bring a
| phone and be on the school Wi-Fi or have a box of Android
| devices to keep up with (which probably weren't under MDM or
| anything). If you could have quest for $299 and have
| interactive educational content there (which the textbook
| manufacturers were making with Google, so they'd probably be
| in), there'd be a big market I think.
| josephmosby wrote:
| Every Thursday at 5 EST we have company "pub trivia" over Kahoot.
| Folks take turns as the host and coming up with trivia questions,
| and as we've grown we have a healthy set of inter-team rivalries
| going.
|
| For ad hoc events we've played Among Us, had a tarot card reader
| come read fortunes, had multiple chefs do cooking classes, and
| had a few musicians do amateur concerts over Zoom.
|
| Agree with others that work hours is best. We have standardized
| on around 5 ET for most things, which is not too late for the
| East Coasties and not too early for the West Coasties.
| ximus wrote:
| video games
|
| - lots of diversity, choice (helps finding something that best
| fits everyone)
|
| - lots of positive emotions (designed by people whose jobs it is
| to make you have fun). tremendously effective at creating shared
| moments of joy.
|
| - lots of cooperative games (team building yaye!)
|
| - loose engagement: easy to hop in and out without much fuss,
| play as much as you want
|
| - easy to repeat: so many games to choose from, some games have
| no ending
|
| - won't necessarily fit anyone (but what does)
|
| recommendations?
|
| - Portal
|
| - Among Us
|
| I'm sure fellow HNers will have better suggestions
| marineverse wrote:
| Shameless plug, but it's free :-)
|
| Activity: Split into groups of 5 and go sailing. Relaxing or
| you can organise a race around island #5 ( start and finish
| next to the big boat ).
|
| Search for "Pancake Sailor" on Steam - it's free and has both
| Windows and Mac version.
|
| Greg
| damagednoob wrote:
| Here's a few online games I've enjoyed playing with my team:
|
| https://codenames.game/
| https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=sechsnimmt
| https://www.jackboxgames.com/split-the-room/
| mo2lina wrote:
| Appears there's quite a few players emerging in this space, some
| with overlapping vendors :-), so I'll go ahead & throw my venture
| in the ring https://www.evee.com
|
| We've found the most engagement by organizing larger team "mini-
| festival" where you pre-book multiple experiences and let your
| teammates pick & choose which events they want to attend.
| https://demo.evee.com
| m_a_g wrote:
| Tabletop Simulator was a lifesaver for us. We play it every week
| and I can't recommend it enough.
| Wingman4l7 wrote:
| My team of ~10 had a pretty good time with a D&D one-shot session
| using https://app.roll20.net/ . Bonus was that enough of us
| enjoyed it that we could pick up where we left off and hold
| successive events. Caveat -- the DM (and at least a couple more
| people) were familiar with the website, and were able to help
| newbies set up fresh characters.
| fovc wrote:
| We use watercoolertrivia.com and it's great for having something
| to talk about other than work/covid. We use their weekly program
| ($1/user/mo iirc), but they also host one off events
|
| Disclosure: I previously worked with one of the founders
| graphcalculator wrote:
| Our team uses https://backyard.co - it's free, has tons of really
| fun party games, and comes with built-in video chat. My favorites
| with large groups are Fake Artist, Word Scramble and Codewords
| myowz wrote:
| An Oculus Quest 2 costs 300 + tax -- extremely memorable way to
| have an event in these times. And acts as a collaboration device
| and an amazing gift going forward.
| alfiedotwtf wrote:
| Reading through all the comments here, I was meh towards most,
| but yours was the only one I wowed at.
|
| Sure, people like different things, but a device (gift) and
| then spending time together (co-op games etc) is an awesome
| idea
| victormustar wrote:
| This is not particularly original but I built a little social
| game for work teams a while ago (before the pandemic):
| https://live.jubiwee.com/ - We enjoy using it with my team from
| time to time. The goal is to bring back social interaction even
| if we all work from home (for what it worth).
| cowllin wrote:
| Async team building as weekly ritual is often a better investment
| than a one time event, one of the many reasons I built
| watercoolertrivia.com :)
| lizlathan wrote:
| Here's 101 ideas for you!
| https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/101-virtual-field-event-ideas...
| umbula wrote:
| Live action "Where's Wally?". Turn camera off. Hide. Turn camera
| on. Works better with two plus people in the same location.
| Jorslu wrote:
| Our team plays https://skribbl.io/ weekly during our "Coffee
| Break Hour"
|
| It's a fun way to interact, laugh, and find out who says they
| can't draw but can actually draw. We play with about 8 people,
| sometimes others join in to just watch or we take turns.
| Honestly, skribbl has been the closest thing to in-person
| interactions we have had in a long time. I created the weekly
| 1-hour coffee break meeting on our calendars @ 3pm local time.
| Usually water-cooler talk, sometimes video games for the laughs.
| adamjb wrote:
| Our office of 13ish does the quiz in the newspaper [0] as a team
| at 9:30 two days a week. One person shares their screen and reads
| the questions and then we collectively decide on our answer.
| Lasts about 10 minutes and it's a fun way to start the day.
|
| [0] Today's quiz (we got 16/30, pathetic!)
| https://www.theage.com.au/national/target-time-and-superquiz...
| Hansenq wrote:
| This is a tough problem! Every quarter I have budget in the same
| range as yours that I try to fill up. Some good things that have
| worked for me outside of the normal board games/order takeout
| are:
|
| - Team Japanese cooking class via Kenji Y--we really enjoyed this
| one! The recipes are simple and super tasty and he's a great
| educational host. https://kenjiskitchen.com/
|
| - Mixology class hosted by Avital--I have one scheduled for next
| month and I'm pretty excited! https://avitaltours.com/
|
| If I have leftover budget I use that to buy a nice gift/box of
| chocolates/macarons/etc and send it out at the end of the
| quarter, but I agree, it's tough to plan bonding events while
| remote. Any little bit of planning an event helps though!
| gagzilla wrote:
| You can also host an event for online volunteering- eg. mapping
| projects. Examples- https://www.missingmaps.org/ and
| https://www.hotosm.org/
|
| Most of these would show a leaderboard of whoever has made most
| contributions (within your event/subgroup) and you can turn it
| into a game.
| mccolin wrote:
| Beer & Cheese Tasting!
|
| We had a company event from City Brew Tours (based out of NYC, I
| believe, but we're in Philadelphia) where we were shipped boxes
| of cheese, crackers, and beers (or ciders or sodas at the
| employee's selection to support alternatives) and during the
| event were given a tasting experience over Zoom.
|
| It was excellently done, gave team members a chance to socialize
| about non-work things, and we learned something, too.
|
| https://www.citybrewtours.com/
| darkwizard42 wrote:
| https://fishbowl-game.com/ is a fun one and specifically
| encourages good communication with low stakes. Easy to play with
| at least 4 people
| secondbreakfast wrote:
| My friends launched Marco[0] last year for teams do fun stuff
| virtually. Was at first skeptical of doing something like a gin
| tasting on Zoom, but all of the events I've done are really fun.
| They vet the events, manage delivering food and booze for you,
| etc.
|
| [0]: https://www.marcoexperiences.com
| IvyMike wrote:
| Everybody gets sent a lego set and (for those who can) a drink,
| and you spend a couple of hours building and talking.
| mytailorisrich wrote:
| That's a creative idea. I'm writing it down!
|
| Where I work the Xmas party was obviously cancelled because of
| Covid so I was expecting an online event paid-for or gift
| vouchers, but they said that in the end we got zilch and they
| decided to give away the budget to charity because "that felt
| like the right thing to do"... Well, for moral and engagement
| no it wasn't...
| Kluny wrote:
| Rad idea! I was given an IKEA-branded lego set for Christmas
| and it was good for hours of entertainment during the winter
| break.
| tschwimmer wrote:
| My team did this recently and it was a lot of fun!
| giantg2 wrote:
| We played kahoot once
| CiuB wrote:
| I was randomly chosen to come up with an event for my team, a
| couple of weeks ago. Our team had recently doubled in size, and I
| have never met some of them face to face. So I decided to come up
| with a 1 1/2 slot, where a team member could present something
| about themselves. Be it a hobby, interest, holiday, interesting
| story, game you played e.t.c. people were given the option to
| join and watch only, or present. a About a 1/3 of my team
| volunteered. So we had around 10 presentations. I personally
| presented my beer brewing hobby. At the end people sent me there
| favourite (I like to call them lightning talks) and who ever got
| the most won some money. It was great. Found out stuff I never
| knew about people. And the winner was a guy who did wood carving
| in his spare time, particularly Daenerys from Game of Thrones.
| People who were from other countries talked about there homes and
| some about photography, there was a guy who talked about his
| heavy metal interest, another archery and the others were
| interesting to.
| summm wrote:
| Was it optional? I find it incredibly invasive to force someone
| to present something for the sake of presenting. At best people
| choose something boring and bland as an excusem And similarly
| invasive to force people to sit through such presentations.
| CiuB wrote:
| Yes, I mention people had the option to present or not. Only
| 1/3 of my team signed up, but that was fine. Only the people
| who were interested presented, but the whole team actually
| joined to watch which was completely up to them also.
| pvinis wrote:
| ah we tried something lighter that that but in the same idea. I
| wrote about it here https://pvin.is/post/carrot-kiwi-banana.
| kaliara wrote:
| We've also done this on our team (we labeled them lightning
| talks), and people really enjoyed them. It also helps to get to
| know one another on a slightly deeper, non-work way without
| crossing boundaries.
|
| Recommended!
| wikibob wrote:
| -
| bpodgursky wrote:
| > people were given the option to join and watch only, or
| present
|
| That's literally what they said. What's your objection?
| Nailgun wrote:
| The best team events are no events.
| Buttons840 wrote:
| Not always, but it does take an awfully good event to beat
| having no event at all.
| AdrianB1 wrote:
| There are a couple of things that we used to do before the
| pandemic and can be done or adapted for these times. 1. Kart
| racing. It is an outdoor activity and quite safe if you bring
| your own helmet and gloves. It requires decent temperatures (at
| least 20 degrees Celsius), so it depends on your location. 2.
| Virtual bar or restaurant. We used to go out to some places, we
| can order foods and drinks while videoconferencing on Teams. It
| works best with some app that accepts sub-groups in a conference
| because this is also the dynamic at the restaurants - even if we
| went in a group of 10-15 around a large table, the discussions
| were broken in groups of 3-5 based on reach and loudness. The app
| should not mute the others, just reduce the volume so that there
| is the atmosphere of having 10 people around the table but being
| able to talk to 2-3 at the same time.
|
| If you do #2 well, you can do weekly a different theme: 'virtual
| <your preferred pizza restaurant>', 'virtual <preferred pub>'
| etc, so you just order from one place every time as you would do
| if you were physically there. Having dinner and drinks with
| people helps unwind, doing it virtual helps with (not) driving
| afterwards after a couple of beers.
| enriquto wrote:
| > Can y'all share any team fun event ideas that have worked well
|
| Sure. Give everybody a raise and quit forcing stupid "team" shit.
| pt3530 wrote:
| We have been playing Among Us over zoom. It has been good for
| team building because we do whole game while talking to each
| other. The meetings to figure out who is the imposter are fun
| because the imposter needs to lie to the team to convince them
| they are not the imposter.
|
| Some simple rules: - everyone's phone is muted so the imposter is
| not revealed by the startup sound - if anyone dies, they can't
| reveal it until the body is found
|
| After everyone does the first install/game it becomes easy to do
| a game every time we finish a meeting 10 minutes early.
| decafninja wrote:
| Gaming is always an option, but that assumes your entire team
| consists of gamers or at least willing to try.
| barfly4489 wrote:
| I've played Bar None Trivia (www.barnonetrivia.com) a bunch of
| times with my team -- it's a blast.
|
| Hosts were great and led us through 4 four rounds of creative
| trivia (including out-of-the-box questions, picture round, music
| round).
|
| We were split into teams in breakout rooms so we actually got to
| converse and connect with people on our 5-6 person team. Also
| spent time in the main room as an entire group.
|
| Pricing is $15-20/person depending on time of game. We play at
| least once a month, couldn't recommend more!
| gigatexal wrote:
| Two teams of ten or at least more than 5 and play Among Us. We do
| as a team and it's awesome!
| summm wrote:
| you can't really talk during the rounds, so not much bonding
| potential
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| leereeves wrote:
| Among Us was my first thought, because it's a good social game,
| but is it a good _team_ game? Encouraging dishonesty and
| distrust doesn 't sound like a good team-building exercise.
|
| Perhaps it depends on how much the team already trusts one
| another.
| gigatexal wrote:
| It is! Because if your team is on good terms it's more of a
| laugh than legit lying to hurt others on your team.
| codr7 wrote:
| But there's nothing funny about being dishonest and lying,
| calling it a game changes nothing.
| heavenlyblue wrote:
| Does that imply I can't play poker with my coworkers?
| olyjohn wrote:
| It's not real though. My team understands that it's just a
| fun game... and we have an awesome time playing every week.
| auslegung wrote:
| We tend to play Among Us and we have a blast. The inside
| jokes continue for weeks afterwards
| masonhipp wrote:
| I just recently launched https://slideswithfriends.com for
| exactly this purpose -- it's a slide-based game builder with a
| bunch games made for team building. Imagine Jackbox-meets-
| Powerpoint but designed for companies.
|
| We have a lot of trivia games, some Quiplash-style games, photo
| sharing games, and other interaction slides that make for some
| really interesting and fun event options. And everything we have
| is customizable so you can add content specific to your company
| if you want.
|
| Plus there's a sound board :)
| chapium wrote:
| Give everyone $100 and tell them to take a half day at work.
| chad_strategic wrote:
| We have a winner!
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| And there's only one rule. No work during the half day off.
| avgDev wrote:
| Anyone who has a family and hobbies _liked_ this comment.
| 11235813213455 wrote:
| getting outside is the important part, no special need for
| extra money (more than salary), say no to (over-)consumerism!
| swlkr wrote:
| Zoom trivia is quite fun
| Siyfion wrote:
| We had a real DJ come and start off each day in spectacular
| fashion over video link recently. The team LOVED it, he took
| requests and it got everyone awake and excited for the day ahead.
| Plus, it drove a great team discussion on our musical tastes! (We
| had https://djgraffiti.com/ - Can't recommend him enough!)
| djgraffiti wrote:
| Thanks so much for the shout out. Happy to bring you all closer
| as a team. If you can make it by early to the set tomorrow I'll
| have Paradise Circus cued up for you!
| Delge wrote:
| Nice to see fans here.
| nathanwallace wrote:
| Agree! We've just been doing a simple Spotify playlist before
| all hands, shared over Zoom. Works great with everyone just
| quietly hanging out together for a while and sets the mood for
| the meeting. Most recent was a 1992 theme for our internal
| launch celebration of https://steampipe.io (a tool to query
| cloud resources using SQL).
| pratikss wrote:
| (1) https://gartic.io (2) https://skribbl.io (3)
| https://www.brokenpicturephone.com (4) JackBox Party Pack Games
| (family friendly mode) (5) Among Us
| jfdi wrote:
| I use https://increment.me and toss some suggestions out and ask
| my team to send in theirs. Been great so far. Things that have
| come back for ex - calls with specific leaders in the company
| w/no agenda, just give people part of a day off, do some mid day
| gaming, etc. Thematically most wanted company fun inside working
| hours.
|
| Only disclaimer, Increment's my product.
| abridgett wrote:
| One of the favourite events we did was "two truths and a lie".
| Each person makes three statements about themselves (as personal
| or impersonal as they like) and others ask questions and then
| vote. We did a little leaderboard. It was great fun and we got to
| know each other much better. I'll also never trust my colleagues
| to tell the truth ever again :-)
| shubik22 wrote:
| Another shameless plug :)
|
| I recently left my job at Google to focus on building a trivia
| platform (https://www.trivvy.co/). We offer both async trivia
| leagues and live trivia games over Zoom with professional hosts.
| We're currently beta testing our live games (for free!), so if
| anyone wants to do a fun live event (anywhere from 60-90
| minutes), shoot me an email (sam at trivvy dot co).
|
| Also if you're interested in trying out a multi-week season with
| one game/week played whenever players are free, feel free to
| reach out as well :)
| dexter89_kp3 wrote:
| Virtual Escape Rooms: https://theescapegame.com/remote-
| adventures/
| jscud wrote:
| We recently had a fun remote event: a painting class.
|
| A local company shipped supplies to each person (canvas, brushes,
| paints) and held a video session with a teacher who walked us
| through how to paint a particular picture step by step.
| Accessible for beginners, many of us had never painted before.
| tj-teej wrote:
| What was the company?
| jscud wrote:
| It was with https://www.createmixandmingle.com/
| phemartin wrote:
| Loved the idea of having a remote manual activity to spark joy.
| cjohnson318 wrote:
| That's great! It's really hard to create a safe space for
| people to do art.
| joshschreuder wrote:
| I've done a few Jackbox Party Pack games sessions over last
| year's lockdown, they are good fun and there's normally at least
| one game per pack that everyone can be good at, without
| necessarily being the funniest or most creative.
|
| It works quite well over screen share due to being time based
| rounds with not a huge reliance on reaction times / audio
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jackbox_Party_Pack
| Buttons840 wrote:
| Jackbox seems alone in this niche, and their style is a bit
| crude for some. I think some of my family or co-workers would
| be offended by some of their games.
| pridkett wrote:
| This is what I've done with my team of about 20 people about
| once every six weeks. I put them on my iPad and then share that
| audio and video via a USB cable and QuickTime recorder to the
| team. It works well enough - particularly if you have family
| safe mode, but tends to struggle for engagement beyond 8 people
| (also limits games at that size).
|
| We've also created a few team specific decks for Cards Against
| Humanity and merged them with Cards Against Containers and
| Cards Against DevOps. We then use Pyx-Reloaded on a VPS to play
| the game. Modulo the bugs in Pyx-Reloaded it's fun, but suffers
| problems when people drop out.
|
| Skrbbl has been good - we have to use personal devices to play
| it (same with JackBox) and it quickly becomes apparent who has
| PiHole on their home network and who does not.
| gknoy wrote:
| I don't know what the per-person budget is, but our team had a
| really enjoyable time doing one of those group painting
| activities. They shipped us supplies, and we all were in a Zoom
| meeting together. I notice the resulting painting on my mantle
| about once or twice a week, and it always makes me smile with
| thoughts about how fun that was, and how much I enjoy the people
| with whom I work.
| jcomo wrote:
| Co-founder of Offsyte here (https://www.offsyte.co). We created
| Offsyte as a solution for this problem (not just virtual, but
| finding fun team events in general). You can find & book events
| directly on the platform - I'm even seeing some of the vendors we
| work with in this thread!
|
| You can find escape rooms, cooking & cocktail classes, magic
| shows and more. Many events have a delivery component so that
| there's no pre-work required for the team.
|
| Feedback welcome! You can also email me at jonathan [at]
| offsyte.co
| masterofsome wrote:
| I really like this. Where I work, my boss just picks a place on
| Airbnb near the beach, and we stay there for the weekend. Will
| recommend this to my boss.
| ryandrake wrote:
| Seems like a cool idea for normal-times remote work, but a
| very terrible idea during a raging deadly and highly
| communicable pandemic.
| zeeb wrote:
| WebLiero: https://www.webliero.com/
| dcas wrote:
| I think the single best thing for me are just casual video chats.
| Whether they're 1on1, the whole team or randomized chat groups
| like the Donut bot does, doesn't matter. But it's important that
| they don't have a work-related agenda so no one feels pressured
| to get some specific outcome.
| INTPenis wrote:
| My co-workers have continued their whiskey tastings over MS
| Teams. The guy organizing them mails out little sample bottles to
| each participant. Participants pay to cover the costs.
| simplify wrote:
| There are quite a few listed here: https://quickparty.games
| moistbar wrote:
| Jackbox games like Patently Stupid or Fibbage are great since
| only one person has to buy the game in order for everyone to
| play. Just do a screen share of the main screen and have everyone
| connect using their phones. My friends and I do it frequently and
| it works great.
| mbohorquez wrote:
| I can't recommend these enough. The game packs can be bought in
| Steam, and there are games for everyone (trivia, drawing,
| puzzles). The trivia games even have a "Disable US centric
| questions" so everyone on the globally distributed team can
| enjoy them.
|
| I started remotely last year and playing these kind of games
| have been a great way to get to know the team in a more
| informal setting.
| moistbar wrote:
| I heartily recommend Talking Points. Most of the work is done
| by actual players, rather than relying on the game to provide
| trivia or whatever, so there's no way for someone to play in
| advance and figure out all the answers ahead of time.
| codezero wrote:
| A few of the things we've done:
|
| - virtual murder mystery (two people on the team wrote it all up,
| it was intense, but I think you could buy a good package)
|
| - drawing apps online we use https://skribbl.io but the ads are
| tedious
|
| - we did a scavenger hunt for household items on different themes
| (we did a thanksgiving one) - this is easy to adapt to a lot and
| a lot of fun to see what folks have around their house - fills a
| lot of curiosity and makes folks feel more connected, also folks
| get creative in their finds - which adds to the fun.
|
| - I like the other suggestions of a lego set / cooking - I have a
| friend whose company sent cooking ingredients and folks all
| cooked together - another that had two or three people "compete"
| like a cooking show with the rest of the team judging - good
| times.
|
| - literally just get a cheesy icebreaker book - for once these
| things really do help get folks primed and engaged.
|
| - Play Among Us
|
| - Give folks a gift card and have them bring what they buy to a
| show and tell
|
| Really looking forward to other folks' ideas.
| codefined wrote:
| (Self promotion) If you're looking for an alternative to
| Skribbl.io that has less ads you can check out a version I
| host[0]. It runs Scribble.rs[1] under the hood. They offer an
| official hosted herokuapp version here[2] but I've found it to
| be unreliable.
|
| [0] https://scribble.feud.today/ [1]
| https://github.com/scribble-rs/scribble.rs [2]
| https://scribblers-official.herokuapp.com/
| laurent92 wrote:
| > Really looking forward to other folks' ideas.
|
| No, I want to work for you! (I'm kidding, I can't leave the
| company I founded)
|
| PS: Is there something to do with a Lego set? Being able to
| keep it at the end would be nice to remember the company's
| present.
| [deleted]
| vga805 wrote:
| +1 for Among Us, had a lot of fun with my tam playing this.
| Eduard wrote:
| Do you have recommendations for icebreaker books?
| jefe_ wrote:
| For a holiday get together a teammate created a trivia game using
| this tool: https://ahaslides.com/
|
| It was surprisingly fun. You could join just using a link (no
| account needed), and scorekeeping was well done. They
| incorporated media, so for some questions a song would play, for
| others there would be images, word scrambles. My favorite
| question type, they would play a song, and you had to choose,
| from a list of emoji, all of the emoji that applied to that song.
| Unsure how much of this is default functionality of the tool, and
| how much was my teammates creativity, but it definitely worked
| very well and as well received coupled with a zoom call. We had
| about 20 people of all ages playing.
| Aliabid94 wrote:
| Trivia nights are a fun bonding exercise and easy to do over
| zoom. We've had fun making our own online jeopardy boards.
| mopeot13 wrote:
| I've been organizing our offices events which have gone well but
| I did hire Social Scavengers Inc. to help with an event for our
| Holiday party and it was a blast.
|
| What we've been doing with the events I organize is giving
| employees a stipend to spend on drinks and/or dinner and then we
| all participate in an activity on Zoom.
|
| Hope this helps. Good luck!
| slezakattack wrote:
| I've seen "The Go Game"[1] work really well amongst teams within
| my company. I am in no way affiliated with this company, just
| heard good things. They have a variety of activities like trivia,
| puzzles, and some others.
|
| [1] https://www.thegogame.com/team-building-games
| mbohorquez wrote:
| I really enjoy jack party games (someone buys it, shares the
| screen and everyone else connects by phone), but for a quicker
| setup this page is great: https://skribbl.io/
|
| It's free and it's like playing pictionary, everyone can enjoy
| via a link after the host creates the room.
| LeifCarrotson wrote:
| Nit: jack party games -> "The Jackbox Party Pack" (or any of 6
| sequel packs)
|
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/331670/The_Jackbox_Party_...
|
| https://www.jackboxgames.com/
| wilwade wrote:
| Cost: $0 Time: ~1 hour Location: Zoom Requires: Someone to act as
| host
|
| Here's something we recently tried that worked fairly well: Story
| Time. The goal was to share short humorous stories. Exaggerations
| were encouraged. And topics suggested. To help I (acting as the
| host) started it off with a story about a car and picking up
| "new" clothing at 70 mph. Opening up to others for other stories,
| but specifically encouraging stories about cars or clothing (to
| help prime the pump).
|
| People tended to thread story topics on their own for the most
| part, but if things quieted down, I would add in another story,
| likely shifting the topic around some.
|
| A few stories fell flat, but they are short and for the most part
| it worked really well. It also helped with one of the parts of
| "Zoom Happy Hour" that I hate: not knowing who is supposed to be
| talking and when to join in.
|
| It does require a level of comfort with the team, but at the same
| time it allowed an enjoyable time for those who just wanted to
| lurk. It also didn't appear to be limited to those who lean
| extroverted as some happy hours can even in real life.
| kmarc wrote:
| Oh but that's what I do on our daily in the morning. Isn't
| that's why it's called a "stand-up"?
|
| Speaking seriously, we have a Mo-Wed-Fri 3PM 'virtual coffee
| break'. The team of ~15 is invited, but it's optional, and free
| mic; you can talk about anything. It's fun, not always the same
| people, not the same topics.
| iso1631 wrote:
| For starters, something that happens during office hours.
| wvlia5 wrote:
| karaoke
| mopeot13 wrote:
| I've been organizing our internal activities however I did hire
| Social Scavengers Inc to help out with one part of our virtual
| holiday party and it was a blast.
|
| What we've been doing is giving our employees a stipend to spend
| on dinner and/or drinks and everyone joins in in an activity via
| Zoom- anything from trivia to true or false show and tell.
|
| I hope this helps! Good luck!
| vga805 wrote:
| Among Us!
| [deleted]
| LinuxBender wrote:
| I can share my idea, but I have not been able to convince anyone
| to do this. I would find a MMORPG or similar type game that has
| concepts of groups, teams, guilds, etc.. and then find
| challenges, quests, tasks that require teamwork or that can have
| multiple teams competing against one another. The game should
| have a chat system that aligns with those team structures. There
| are probably free-to-play games that carry some of these
| concepts.
|
| I agree with others that this should be done during work hours. I
| do not show up to team or company events that are on my time.
| archi42 wrote:
| As someone who spent quite some time with MMORPGs, I think a
| huge problem is the neccessary time investment to get a lot of
| the "more interesting stuff" going. In other words: A MMORPG
| usually is equivalent to the epic pen&paper campaign that can
| take your group years to finish. You don't want to do that as a
| fun event. What you want is the quick "one shot" equivalent, a
| kind of MMORPG which you can "finish" in an evening.
|
| It's just a comparison. Obviously you're not going to do a
| pen&paper RPG with a group of 20 to 500 people (we did 20 once,
| it was... uhm... interesting?).
| LinuxBender wrote:
| For sure. I was thinking of things more like World of
| Warcraft and everyone create a new character, all starting in
| the same area. And for those with accounts, just create an
| alt. Each team would need one existing player to explain what
| is going on. But I could see people not wanting to download a
| 50+GB game and you can only play for free to level 20 or 30 I
| think.
| jebarker wrote:
| My team recently did a virtual escape room. Was well organized
| and encouraged communication and collaboration within the team.
| We used this company: https://www.puzzlebreak.us
| ydnaclementine wrote:
| If you want to play something async, http://gamesbyemail.com/ has
| a bunch of different board games that you can play by email and
| will email you when it's your turn. We've had most success with
| Risk and Chinese Checkers, which both support up to 6 people.
| Games can last a few weeks. There's also a bunch of 2 player
| games (Connect 4, Chess, etc).
| woodrowbarlow wrote:
| last year i set up a game of scythe in my kitchen with an
| overhead camera -- i could hit a button on my phone to snap a
| pic and upload to my vps. played this way with a group of
| friends over the course of a few days and it worked pretty
| well. some things were tricky -- cards that players receive
| that are supposed to be "private", for instance, but most of
| the game worked face-up.
| noarchy wrote:
| Related note: do it during work hours, if possible. Not all of us
| want to be expected to take an evening to devote to work events.
| Even if I genuinely like my co-workers, there are times that I
| want to set aside where I don't have to think about work.
| abcdjdjd wrote:
| >Related note: do it during work hours, if possible.
|
| No, not just IF POSSIBLE, either do them during work hours or
| don't do them at all. If a company can't make time during work
| hours to throw an event they are planning, then don't expect
| your workers to make time for the event after work either.
| evanlivingston wrote:
| This can't be stressed enough. Work outings are still work, and
| all of a sudden an employer has monopolized my time. Are work
| events _really_ optional? If I _never_ show up to them?
| Taylor_OD wrote:
| 100%. I was required to go to a company holiday party at a
| former work place and I only found out that it was not really
| an optional event after I'd already booked tickets for a
| movie with a Q&A with the director...
| josephorjoe wrote:
| i've skipped a lot of "optional" work events and i'm sure it
| has been a negative for my career.
|
| there was one former boss who i felt was always a bit cold
| and standoffish (but always professional) with me and i could
| never quite put my finger on why until i did show up at one
| of the weekly happy hours i almost never went to and realized
| that he _loved_ them and spent the whole time laughing and
| smiling and chatting with everyone.
|
| since i was rarely at those and especially missed most of
| them my first 6 months on the job (when i had some ongoing
| family issues that required my non-work time and focus), i
| suspect he took that as a bit of antisocial behavior on my
| part and prevented him from really trusting me
| g051051 wrote:
| > i've skipped a lot of "optional" work events and i'm sure
| it has been a negative for my career.
|
| In the Navy, we'd say "Your presence is not required, but
| your absence will be noted."
| blandflakes wrote:
| I had a manager deny me the promotion that he otherwise
| agreed I deserved because I didn't participate in enough
| happy hours.
| [deleted]
| leetcrew wrote:
| there are arguments for/against. it's nice that a work event
| during normal work hours doesn't cut into my free time, but it
| does cut into the block of time that I've already set aside to,
| you know, get my actual work done. I generally don't attend
| optional events scheduled during work hours unless I think
| attending will directly contribute to the work I am responsible
| for. "virtual happy hour" doesn't meet that criteria. on the
| other hand, I might hang out in a zoom call after hours if I
| don't have evening plans already.
| abcdjdjd wrote:
| If a company can't find time during the day to make time for
| these meetings, don't expect workers to cut time into there
| personal lives for these meetings either.
| jeromegv wrote:
| The amount of work you are expected to complete should just
| not be as high if you have a work event during working hours.
| pseudobry wrote:
| Couldn't agree more.
| squidbot wrote:
| My team is fully remote and distributed among time zones,
| making it impossible to have an event during "working hours"
| for everyone. So we all just agree on an acceptable time. We
| think it's important to socialize as it helps engender trust,
| so we take the hit as it were. We do try to make it fair by
| moving the time around so it hits various people's off hours.
| xwdv wrote:
| _If possible_? ONLY do it during work hours.
|
| I don't work to make friends with co-workers and hang out after
| hours. I'm there to put my skills to use, get paid for it, and
| fuck off to live my own life. Asking me to come to an event and
| participate for free is bullshit, especially an online event!
| If it hurts my reputation, whatever? I'm still getting paid and
| have no desire to get promoted to upper management.
| laurent92 wrote:
| I used to offer via ferratas or paragliding on worktime, but
| then the employees would leave at 5 (none of them have
| children) and no-one stayed for beers.
|
| If you do that, then at least be good at go-kart, you're paid
| for it.
|
| At least it clarified the situation: They don't expect work to
| be fun. I stopped organizing events. If you want work to be
| boring, then this is how to make work boring.
|
| It makes me a bit sad. But at least I'm sure I don't care if I
| lose them.
|
| I hope to build a better team after moving (which is in the
| plans), but I'm clearly lacking the talent to build a dynamic
| team. One of them told me his preferred series was The Office.
| Now I know my role. Maybe I should incarnate the Mickael Scott
| role, have a separate office, and be so much a caricature of
| the boss that they'd have to laugh.
|
| But Mickael Scott was the only one at the airport when the girl
| left.
| stevezsa8 wrote:
| You sound like you're trying, which is good. As the other
| poster said, maybe don't expect so much.
|
| For example, I'm a total wimp. I forced myself to do go-
| karting because the big macho guys wanted to do it. I hated
| it, it was loud smelly and scary. I was sore for days.
|
| Maybe allow different people to make suggestions and go with
| ones that are out of _your_ comfort zone instead of expected
| your colleagues to do things that might not appeal.
| libraryatnight wrote:
| I work to pay for my life outside work. I like what I do and
| I find it rewarding, but it's a means not an end. I do not
| have kids, but I have a wife. We like to spend the evening
| together. My life is not boring. My work is not boring.
| Michael Scott as a child said "I wanna be married and have
| 100 kids so I can have 100 friends. And no one can say no to
| being my friend. " You seem to want to have employees that
| can't say no to being your friend.
| ADifferentKyle wrote:
| If I may... your events might not be as fun as you think they
| are. Just because I don't have kids doesn't mean I don't have
| other obligations. I'd like to workout after work. And the
| dog needs to be walked, dinner needs to get made, clothes
| folded, etc. I'm also an early person so I've been logged in
| since 6:30am. Maybe I just want to zone out and watch the
| grass grow for a while. It doesn't matter - the point is, you
| don't know what people have going on outside of work, and it
| shouldn't bother you that those might be a higher priority
| for the people on your team. If these forced events are so
| important to you, maybe try delegating them? "I've set aside
| an hour for us all and have asked Amy to put together an
| idea."
| corytheboyd wrote:
| I too strongly agree with this
| zucked wrote:
| Work "fun" events that happen outside of work hours are totally
| bogus.
| frombody wrote:
| Only if the place you work is no fun.
| groby_b wrote:
| My workplace is plenty fun. But so is my private life.
|
| More importantly, people in my private life need my
| presence more than my company fun event needs it. Easy
| choice.
| abcdjdjd wrote:
| You sound like a stereotypical character from the movie The
| Office that would probably also tell people "They have the
| case of the Mondays".
| LeifCarrotson wrote:
| I'd disagree with this, and I consider my work 'fun'. In
| the Before Time, we had monthly summer grill-outs with
| families and Thanksgiving turkey bowling and winter pizza
| luncheons and other events. We had only one event (a
| Christmas party) at the founders' house after hours. But
| none of that was mandatory, try as you might one or two
| people are going to have a conflict for the Christmas party
| every year because the holidays are busy and that's fine.
|
| But it's one thing to ask an employee to report after-hours
| for an emergency service call. It's another to demand they
| attend something (fun or not) that could have been during
| work hours but you scheduled it after hours.
| fuzzer37 wrote:
| If they're organized by the company, I totally agree. We have
| (had) a group who voluntarily organized and went out to a
| local bar after work on Fridays. Everyone was welcome, and no
| one felt pressured to go or not go.
| el_dev_hell wrote:
| <rant>
|
| You hit the nail on the head.
|
| After work drinks on Friday are enjoyable _because_ they
| 're informal and not (usually) arranged as a company
| initiative. It's a chance to let off the work related
| stress with a group of people in a similar situation while
| being on neutral territory.
|
| Don't want to come to Friday after work drinks? Sweet, have
| a good afternoon. I'll be smashing a pint with/without you.
|
| Friday Zoom drinks from 5-6PM can die. No, I don't want to
| sit in a quasi-optional meeting with 25 people arranged by
| HR/management. It's not comparable to shooting the shit
| with a selection of staff that have formed a connection
| organically.
|
| The best way to determine the success/failure of Friday
| drinks is the percentage of people still present at 6:05PM.
| It's at least 50% below the 5:55PM number. At a local
| bar/pub, it's pretty stable until 7-8 and you're usually an
| hour past talking pure "work" shit.
|
| </rant>
| bluefirebrand wrote:
| Yep.
|
| People don't put up enough resistance to our workplaces
| invading our personal lives.
| libraryatnight wrote:
| We have a newer team member that pointed this out to us. He
| mentioned in a team meeting that he sees us answering
| people on Slack or email after hours and wondered if he's
| expected to do the same. It's really best for everyone to
| just be off work when you're off work. I've started letting
| things sit til morning if it comes in after I'm out. I
| don't want to be the guy that makes another guy feel
| pressured to keep slack on his phone all night.
| dimitrios1 wrote:
| It's the exact opposite. They keep coming up because most
| of your coworkers _want_ these events.
| benjohnson wrote:
| As a business owner - I can't ethically ask my employees
| to have "mandatory fun time" after work.
|
| But 80% of my employees keep asking for them!
| abcdjdjd wrote:
| No offense but frankly ignore them. They are either BSing
| (aka, being brownnoses trying to look like "team
| players") or possibly don't have lives outside work.
|
| If someone is that eager to have an event outside work,
| then you should ask yourself why haven't they organized
| one themselves? Either it is option A (they are just
| brownnosing and saying what they think you want to hear)
| or B, 80% of people don't actually want to go out to
| events and it is really just a loud minority saying it
| and the others are just agreeing to sound good.
|
| Chances are, you haven't actually asked 80% of your
| employees. Most likely you heard it second hand from a
| manager pushing this idea (again, brownnosing or looking
| for promotion) or you heard it in a group setting where
| people don't want to be seen as not "team players" and
| don't say there actual opinion on it.
|
| If you change your policy, don't be shocked if a lot of
| people start leaving the company for some "unexplained"
| reason.
| pc86 wrote:
| Do you know why they keep asking if they're free to get
| together on their own?
| smoe wrote:
| I reckon because anything beyond spontaneously go for
| drinks or dinner is a big pain in the ass to organize as
| soon as like more than 2-3 people/opinions are involved.
| bluefirebrand wrote:
| Because they know their co-workers don't want to hang out
| with them outside of work so they want the company to
| force them to, maybe?
| jdminhbg wrote:
| * The business will pay
|
| * The business will take care of the organizing
|
| * Making it a "work event" gives them slack from family
| members who might otherwise balk at coworker happy hour
| bluefirebrand wrote:
| Coworkers are part of the workplace. I didn't say
| employers.
| crazybones wrote:
| A small sites I created that is super easy to set up fun event
| for even 15+ people. https://www.virtualmorale.com/
|
| Have games like Telestrations and Draw and Guess that are very
| fun for teams!
| sacredcows wrote:
| Play Catan online
| grok22 wrote:
| We did this once as a farewell to a departing team member --
| share-a-drink-over-zoom; worked quite well too. Mostly people
| chatting and reminiscing and discussing the current customer-
| from-hell -- it was an unexpectedly good way to bond. Maybe it
| worked well because the focus was on one person. But zoom can be
| a pain for separate one-on-one conversations in a group -- but
| there are now newer online conference systems that seem to
| facilitate that (haven't used any of those though).
| Buttons840 wrote:
| Form a chess team with your co-workers?
| https://nacorporatechess.com/
| jdlyga wrote:
| Anything that involves free stuff. Cooking class with free
| ingredients, a painting class with free paint, a wine tasting
| with free wine. Just anything but a regular old zoom "happy
| hour".
| bradhilton wrote:
| Not a super creative, fun "event" per-se, but we have weekly
| virtual team lunches on Monday where the company orders everyone
| doordash and we hop on a zoom call to eat and chat. YMMV
| bighitbiker3 wrote:
| Shameless plug, but this is exactly what we do at Mystery. We
| have a curated catalog and the ability to distribute supplies to
| your team.
|
| The activities I've helped vet are all super fun and engaging and
| our customers have loved them as well.
|
| https://trymystery.com
| kennethfriedman wrote:
| typo, .com
| bighitbiker3 wrote:
| Thank you!
| esotericn wrote:
| In the UK, it is legal to exercise with one other person. So one
| is able to go for a walk.
|
| Despite this, virtually no companies I know of are encouraging
| this real, physical, safe interaction that has a huge potential
| for building team bonds.
|
| It's been a year so far, and we could well be doing this for
| years.
|
| I think that outdoor team events are a reasonable way forward.
| SecureToaster wrote:
| We've done: - Bake pizza (and chat) - Played a selection of mini
| games, trivia, apps, what ever people found. pictionary works
| well on zoom for instances. - Quiz. Each team had to prepare 10
| points worth of questions, each team = 1 round. A good compere
| makes or breaks it. Inc bonus rounds like "2 minutes to find the
| oldest food item in your cupboard" - paid for
| www.theeventscompany.co.uk for 1 evening. Not idea how much they
| charged us.
|
| Also using zooms break out rooms to split us up into small groups
| of 4-6 so you can have a more personal chat really. Do that for
| 10m. Then shuffle the rooms. In a 20 room only a few people will
| really talk.
| cpursley wrote:
| What about a bonus or some extra time off rather than a team
| event?
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