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Show your team some love with these fun group remote activities

Keeping a remote team feeling connected is difficult, but essential work. Here are some great virtual bonding activities you can offer your remote team.


As employers adapt to managing more remote or hybrid teams, one of the more overlooked challenges is team-building. Back in the age of Office-dwellers, we took for granted how much a shared physical space contributed to a feeling of belonging among team members. But according to Upwork’s 2021 Future of Work Report, over 40 million workers are expected to be working remotely in the next 5 years, so managers can’t rely on those serendipitous encounters in the hallway anymore.

Besides boosting team morale, collaboration and fighting loneliness, virtual team-building can even increase team productivity. So here’s to a future with more engaging, intentional gatherings, even if they’re virtual. Below are a few fun activities we think could make for some great team-building times.


Hosted Activities

 

Coursehorse

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Activities:

  • Scavenger hunts
  • Trivia nights
  • Escape rooms
  • Murder mystery

Group size:  Up to 15 people
Time commitment: 1 – 1.25 hours

 
 

Elevant

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Activities:

  • Scavenger hunts
  • Trivia nights
  • Escape rooms
  • Murder mystery
  • Game shows
  • Tastings (food, wine, or cocktails)
  • Wellness (movement, plants, yoga, yo chi, etc.)
  • Art sessions (paint, origami, sculpture, etc.)

Group size:  Up to 250 people
Time commitment: Varies

 
 

Confetti

confetti screenshot

Activities:

  • Scavenger hunts
  • Trivia nights
  • Escape rooms
  • Murder mystery
  • Game shows
  • Tastings (food, wine, or cocktails)
  • Wellness (movement, plants, yoga, yo chi, etc.)
  • Art sessions (paint, origami, sculpture, etc.)

Group size:  Up to 160 people
Time commitment: Varies

 
 

Sherlock Escape Rooms

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Activities: Escape rooms (e.g. The Shipwreck, Cabin in the Woods, The Lost Kingdom)
Group size: Up to 8 people
Time commitment: 1 hour

 
 

LockBox: 360 Escape rooms

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Activities:Escape rooms (e.g. Timeline, CIA, Order of Illusionists)
Group size: 10 – 15 people
Time commitment: 1 – 1.5 hours

 
 

Luco Online

luco escape rooms screenshot
Activities:Escape rooms (e.g. Basement & Barbarians, Hansel & Gretel, Monster Hunters Academy)
Group size: 2 – 8 people
Time commitment: 1 – 1.5 hours

 
 

Confundrum escape rooms

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Activities:Escape rooms (e.g. Blackbeard’s Brig, Twisted Woods)
Group size: 2 – 8 people
Time commitment: 1 hour

 
 

Play-on-your-own Activities

If you have a smaller group and like the freedom to play without a host, here are a few self-initiated group games.

 
 

Black Noir Escape

blacknoir escape screenshot
Activity: Escape room
Group size:3-5 people
Time commitment: However long it takes

 
 

Modern Genius

modern genius screenshot
Activity: Escape room
Group size:3-5 people
Time commitment: However long it takes

 
 

Trapped in the Web

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Activity: Escape rooms (e.g. Escape Fest, The Missing, Lockdown Breakout, Space Race)
Group size:3-5 people
Time commitment: However long it takes

 
 

Enchambered

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Activity: Escape rooms (e.g. Apart in Time, Together at Heart)
Group size:32 players, but multiple people can share in the puzzle-solving fun
Time commitment: However long it takes

 
 

Lost in the Arctic

lost in arctic screenshot
Activity: Escape rooms (e.g. Apart in Time, Together at Heart)
Group size:3-5 people
Time commitment: However long it takes
 
 


Enjoy!


Andrew Davies

Drew's degrees in Illustration, 2D animation and Broadcast Design, and his volleyball skillz mean he can get your design done and play well with others at the same time. He’s the Creative Director at Paragon and will call you out if you start hanging out with shady-looking fonts and messing around with whacked-out color palettes.

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