Current REMOTE employees. What virtual team-building activities has your company done to bring everyone together and keep everyone engaged in a virtual setting?

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We have a “virtual coffee” every other week to give everyone a chance to connect with non work chat. Also have played Pictionary virtually, using Paint (sounds like it would be awful, but it was actually really fun). Kahoot is an option, or we have also had The Escape Game do an activity for us, but that is about $25/player so not possible too often, probably. Hope that helps….it’s definitely important to keep the team connected so I’m happy we’re talking about it!!

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These are great activities! I'd like to have some "virtual coffee" with my team as well.

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The escape room via a third party, weekly “happy hours” where you play a game and winner gets a $5 Starbucks e-gift card games have ranged from kahoot, regular trivia, Pictionary, guess who baby photo, etc. We would have different employees volunteering to run them so it was always a variety. I do suggest to kick it off with managers running it that way more people want to show up!

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We do virtual coffee time, and a variety of simple things. Group team time every two weeks for an hour. Some work, some sharing and some laughs. Mirro white boarding keeps things engaging for all participants. We constantly have Teams ‘group’ chats of various areas that is like a stream of consciousness and chatter. The culture runs from group support brain trust to blowing off steam to jokes and gif wars. It’s very much like being together with kids birthday parties, weekend events and context. My team does periodic personality surveys to share results and banter about our own nuances. A fun team distraction was a home scavenger hunt with timed responses on video and points for first responders. You have to keep it fun and safe so people interact and bond throughout the workday.

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We’ve done guess who’s desk and guess who’s pets (send pics to whoever is in charge of the meeting). We did a treasure hunt.

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Love the guess pets idea!!

We had a Friday afternoon wine session, all face to face, no work, but during work, where we discussed upcoming weekend plans. It was like 3 or 4 on a Friday and we stopped work so to speak…

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Great post. I’ve been with my current company almost 5 years and it’s so lonely.

We've done kahoot... and once a kinda dance party with music and people throwing out dancing gifs... a little silly, but was cute

Virtual happy hour. You’d be surprised how many games work via Webex / MS Teams.

Once a month company update coupled with games: Trivia, Kahoot, bingo for gift card prizes as added incentive to participate.

The activities, not the coworkers

I did a virtual scavenger hunt. I was the host and would name a random household object. The first person to retrieve the item and come back onscreen would get a point. At the end, the person with the most points got a $25 Amazon gift card. We did it during office hours. I think everyone enjoyed themselves. I never held an event after hours, because no one wants to come.

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