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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.
The best team events are no events.
Two teams of ten or at least more than 5 and play Among Us. We do as a team and it’s awesome!
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.
Give everyone $100 and tell them to take a half day at work.
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Work "fun" events that happen outside of work hours are totally bogus.
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.
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.
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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!
Do you know why they keep asking if they're free to get together on their own?
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
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.
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.