We’re a remote work-friendly company, but have never been a fully remote work team — until this week!
With a mixed bag of newbies and veteran remote workers, we wanted to see how we could continue fun and hilarious team bonding from a safe distance. Here are 30 ideas that our team came up with.
Unless otherwise noted (for example, a gaming system), all of these can be done using Google Hangouts:
- Jackbox Games – “Since 2014, we’ve been releasing collections of easy-to-play party games for your friends, family, and fellow inmates. Players join by simply using the web browser on their smartphone – no app needed!”
- Kast – “Watch parties, made easy.”
- Conference Call Bingo
- Call of Duty
- Drawful 2 – “Challenges players to draw ridiculous prompts on their smartphones and tablets.”
- A team radio playlist with Spotify
- Roll20
- MTV Cribs: Remote Team Edition
- Trivia
- Name that song
- Most embarrassing photo contest
- Charades
- Taboo
- AirConsole
- Everyone takes turns reading a book aloud, paragraph by paragraph like in middle school
- Everyone takes turns making up a story and says one sentence
- Dog talent show
- Taco eating contest
- NAILED IT! Cooking challenge
- Chopped challenge! Pick 3 random ingredients and each person make a dish
- Team book club
- Pick a Bob Ross painting and everyone attempts making it in Paint (or equivalent) in 30 minutes
- Scavenger hunt for common household items
- 21 questions
- Eye spy
- Price Is Right watch party
- PowerPoint Karaoke – “Powerpoint [sic] Karaoke (also called Powerpoint Roulette or Battledecks) is an improv game where a person presents a slideshow to an audience without knowing the contents of the slides.”
- Team lightning talks
- Lip Sync Battle
- Everyone holds their pets up to the camera and pretends they are talking