Remote Work Engagement: Top Games to Keep the Fun Alive in Business

Remote work has become prevalent in today's globalized world, offering convenience and flexibility to both employers and employees. However, let's be honest. Traditional, old-fashioned ways of boosting employee engagement simply don't work in this era.

Face-to-face get-togethers are not possible in this remote work era. And frankly, how many virtual pizza parties can your team handle? Video meetings and virtual team-building games are the next best alternative. They are easy to set up, help connect people, and, most importantly, create a fun environment for employers and employees to showcase their personality. As you already know, your employees will work much better and productively if they are comfortable with each other.

Look at the top games you can include for your next remote work engagement session to keep the fun alive in business.

Gin Rummy

This is a classic card game that doesn't need an introduction. Your employees or team members might be secretly lovers of Gin Rummy and probably play Gin Rummy online all the time on popular platforms, such as MPL.

Over the years, Gin Rummy has truly found a home in online platforms and adapted itself for virtual play. This game of skills is a great way to test your team's problem-solving, strategic thinking, and communication abilities.

Organize virtual team-building sessions or happy hours centered around Gin Rummy to
foster friendly competitions and social interactions. It’ll be fun to keep tabs on Gin Rummy scoring and see who wins.

Charades and Pictionary

These two classic games have online versions. Include them in your team-building sessions. Split your employees into two teams. Draw or act out a movie, object, or book. Use a timer and encourage your team to guess the movie, book, object, or word before time runs out.

Charades and Pictionary are team games that will help people bond together much more than individual games. These games will help co-workers learn about each other's likes based on the movie or book they pick.

It will show you whether your remote workers can work together despite working remotely and never actually meeting each other face-to-face.

Online Trivia Games

Trivia games are engaging and fun. They are a great way to test your knowledge and learn new things. A quick online search will reveal countless trivia platforms catering to diverse interests and difficulty levels.

You can divide your team into groups to compete against each other in a friendly trivia battle. You can also take ideas from online trivia platforms and create your personalized quizzes based on your company's culture or recent events.

Two Truths and a Lie

This classic icebreaker is an excellent way to introduce the team to each other. Two truths and a lie take only about five to ten minutes for each person but can reveal much about an individual.

The game is exactly what it sounds like. Everyone has to come up with two truths and one lie about themselves. Then, you all take turns figuring out their lie.

Words with Friends

Words with Friends is an excellent game you can download and install on your device. Encourage your remote co-workers to download the same game on their devices so you can compete with each other. Each player gets letters and tiles, and they must combine the letters to create words.

The player with the most points wins the game when the letters run out. It is an online version of Scrabble.

This game is played with two players and gives them ample opportunities to communicate with each other.

Aliens Have Landed!

This is another fun icebreaker that helps people know each other's thinking processes and personalities. For this game, you have to split your employees into groups of three or four. Tell all your employees that aliens have landed on Earth and are interested in learning about your company. The twist is that aliens do not speak English. So, each team will have to come up with five images that best describe your company so that the message can be communicated to the aliens. The images can be about the company's culture, what the company does, or any other image you feel represents your company the best.

For this game, your teams will have to chat among themselves, collaborate, and come up with those five images. It is an excellent team-building exercise, and the game is pretty fun.

As the game progresses, you will get an idea of what your teams are thinking of your company. Also, this will help your teams build a strong bond, which will help them collaborate better on future tasks.

Virtual Scavenger Hunt

For this game, you must choose a virtual scavenger hunt platform or application that allows for interactive play. Ask the participants to join the game using a unique code and compete against co-workers to complete various tasks and activities listed on the platform or app.

Tasks might range from finding specific items to solving puzzles and more. Whenever a team completes a task, they earn points. The game continues until all the tasks are completed. The team with the highest points wins the scavenger hunt.

Conclusion: Let the Games Begin!

It doesn't matter if your workers are not in the same office. You can help them bond through the virtual games mentioned above. These games will help build a stronger team and also give you a glimpse of their skills and personalities.