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Re: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

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Post by ryandrake »

masterofsome wrote: post #71
jcomo wrote: post #33

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 pr…

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.

Seems like a cool idea for normal-times remote work, but a very terrible idea during a raging deadly and highly communicable pandemic.

Re: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

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Post by vga805 »

codezero wrote: post #97

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 - fill…

+1 for Among Us, had a lot of fun with my tam playing this.

Re: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

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Post by marineverse »

ximus wrote: post #179

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,…

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

Re: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

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Post by abcdjdjd »

noarchy wrote: post #38

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.

>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.

Re: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

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Post by codefined »

codezero wrote: post #97

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 - fill…

(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/

Re: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

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Post by blandflakes »

josephorjoe wrote: post #120
evanlivingston wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

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 wit…

I had a manager deny me the promotion that he otherwise agreed I deserved because I didn't participate in enough happy hours.

Re: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

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Post by abcdjdjd »

benjohnson wrote: post #110
dimitrios1 wrote: post #101

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It's the exact opposite. They keep coming up because most of your coworkers want these events.

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!

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.

Re: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

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Post by abcdjdjd »

frombody wrote: post #65
zucked wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Work "fun" events that happen outside of work hours are totally bogus.

Only if the place you work is no fun.

You sound like a stereotypical character from the movie The Office that would probably also tell people "They have the case of the Mondays".
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