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Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
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#62Buy 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.
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#63Give everyone $100 and tell them to take a half day at work.
We have a winner!
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#65Related 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.
Work "fun" events that happen outside of work hours are totally bogus.
Only if the place you work is no fun.
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#66Related 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.
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?
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...
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#67Buy 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/
But hurry, "Expeditions and Tour Creator are shutting down on June 30th, 2021"
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#68I 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.
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#69We 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!)
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).
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#70My 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.