How Do You Keep Office Life Fun? Share Your Best Employee Recreation Ideas

Hi all,

I want to know things that can keep the office atmosphere more interesting. Any events or competitions that will benefit employee recreation. If you practice any of such activities in your office, please share.

Thank you,
Shilpa

Dear Shilpa,

My first experience as a recruiter in an IT Services company was challenging as I did not receive my regular payments. However, I still enjoy being there because of my colleagues. We have a strong bond and share everything during our off-work hours. In my present company, I have a similar experience where we have a family-like environment. My suggestion is to first build friendships as it only develops through effective communication. Additionally, HR should pay attention to employees' needs and desires. Therefore, it is vital to be close to them to understand who they are and what they want.

Malini

Hi Shilpa,

This is Prasanna from Bangalore!

This is an interesting game which I would like to share with everyone. This is called "Know your Partner?"

1. Allow the participants to choose their own partners in pairs!
2. Tell them that they need to know each other since this is the main concept of the game!

3. Once discussed, separate all the paired partners.

4. Prepare a set of funny questions like:
a) What is their partner's mobile number?
b) What is their partner's employee ID number?
c) What is his/her partner's favorite crush?
d) What is their partner's educational background and year of passing?
e) What is their partner's DOB (dd/mm/yy)?
f) What is their partner's first boyfriend/girlfriend's name?
g) Which dress did their partner wear three days ago?
h) What is their partner's previous month incentive/bonus?
i) What is their partner's blood group?

5. Keep adding some funny questions like this, and the questions should not be discussed once you distribute the papers!

6. Meanwhile, the opposite partners will also be given a question paper for which they will have to write the answers and give it to their other partner.

7. Give them a time limit, say 5/10 mins.

Both partners should not sit together and write the answers! Make sure the pairs are far away and do not discuss while writing the answers!

8. Collect the answer papers and compare them. You all will enjoy the answers written. Read out the answers and see how many are similar. Partners with the most similar answers win!

The purpose of conducting this game is to get everyone to know each other, which will result in building a strong team!

If you require any help, please email me at prasanna.jeeva@gmail.com.

All the best!
Prasanna

Hi,

I have recently conducted a game in this new year called Wish Capsule. It's a kind of old concept in which you write wishes on chits like "catwalk, female voice," etc. The capsule can then be rotated to everyone. The song I used for the rotation was "Bum Bum Bole Masti Mei Dole." It was really fun!

Regards,
Swati Gupta