Video games would be cool too. Factorio and Counter-Strike or whatever else the kids are playing these days. Call into a shared Zoom if there's no built-in voice chat. We enjoyed it.
Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
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#242Might have exactly the thing you are looking for :)
We have built social/banter filled games to play right within Slack called Bored.
The games are not the typical team games - they involve accusing and deceiving people, roasting your colleagues and the like.
If that sounds like your thing and you are on Slack, you can install it from https://bored.social/
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#243> Can y'all share any team fun event ideas that have worked well Sure. Give everybody a raise and quit forcing stupid "team" shit.
Money is great but when WFH more human interaction really is needed. Especially for those that are younger without a family.
> more human interaction really is needed
My point exactly. If you give employees more money, they can afford to hire people to do their chores and then they have more free time to go out together after work (if they so desire).
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#244Spotted a game for Slack on Product Hunt the other day. We tried it out in our company workspace and it was quite fun. We loved the roasting game the most :D. Especially since our boss was playing and she was quite the sport.
Re: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
#245Might have exactly the thing you are looking for :) We have built social/banter filled games to play right within Slack called Bored. The games are not the typical team games - they involve accusing and deceiving people, roasting your colleagues and the like. If that sounds like your thing and you are on Slack, you can install it from https://bored.social/
Hey, we found it on Product Hunt the other day and it's been super fun playing it. We loved the roasting game.
What other games do you have lined up?
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#246Murder mystery. Dressing up and bad accents optional.
https://www.red-herring-games.com/product/murder-on-the-diso...
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
Work "fun" events that happen outside of work hours are totally bogus.
Only if the place you work is no fun.
When I first got a job after Uni, I moved to London where I knew no-one. By accident I ended up living in a house share owned by the HR lady that hired me and one of my housemates was another new dev in my team. There was plenty of money around for socializing and events planned so in the week, I had a great time going to bars, restaurants and parties at my employers expensive. Everyone loved it although it would have been nice if there were more women! They even hired the Albert Hall for a party one year. At weekends, I generally wasn't available as I would drive away to see old friends and go kayaking/climbing etc in the countryside. The weekday activities suited me perfectly.
Now if I joined a new company, I have family and young kids and plenty of friends that I want to spend time with. It's pretty unlikely whether I'd spend much time out of hours with the company as it would be far down my priorities and time would is limited. If I had nothing else on or it was something special, I might turn up.
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#248Give everyone $100 and tell them to take a half day at work.
Underrated comment. Personally Zoom "socializing" doesn't work for me. I'd rather stick a needle in my eye than sit around and watch my co-workers pretend to have fun. We do a weekly hangout and occasionally meetings will devolve into social time but group video chats feel like meetings, not fun.
I wonder why you would think they pretend.
Any sufficiently large group will likely have its loners and social butterflies, and butterflies are the people who tend to be loud, joke around, and generally try and find (even if shallow) topics to talk about.
I'd rather consider it as a character trait, than straight up dishonesty. It's also nice to have a few of those people in a group, otherwise any meeting w/o a clearly defined topic would become too quiet and depressive. They are the people who break the ice, I don't see why they can't be having fun doing that.
I agree about the "zoom socializing" part though. Mainly because what Zoom offers is a fairly flat space where you're either one of the 20 people talking/hearing at the same time (so you gotta be loud) or you don't exist. You can't easily form a bubble of three people and discuss something all three of you care about, and any topic with 20 other people either becomes too exclusive (3 talkers and 17 listeners) or too shallow. (a 20-people grand debate about the weather)
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#249We rented a donkey for a Zoom meeting. It was a blast. https://dangrooster.com/
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#250It's hard to have a cocktail party on Zoom, but there is a new "breakout rooms" feature that we used at our Holiday party to set up a bunch of different topic rooms (and some random ones) where people could pop in and out of. It was better than 50 people in a room where only one can really talk at a time.