As workers continue to prefer work from home, flexible schedules, and hybrid work models, organizations have also transitioned to digital and hybrid employee engagement methods. After all, employee engagement activities are essential to keep up employee motivation and maintain positive workplace culture, even if the culture has become digital.
So without further ado, let’s take a look at some fun hybrid team activities popular in 2022:
Digital Escape Rooms
Escape rooms are one of the most amazing employee engagement activities. The online version of the activity, i.e., digital escape room, can be equally fun and exciting.
Escape rooms force teams to work together on something much different from their day-to-day tasks. This way, they allow team members to learn more about each other and discover their unique problem-solving skills without the pressure of clients and deadlines.
Hybrid teams can easily connect over digital escape rooms through laptops or PCs, while a group voice call or video call allows communication.
Virtual Trips
Field trips can be amazing for teams as they allow the development of work friendships among the team members. However, work trips can consume a lot of time, and organizing them can be especially challenging when employees prefer to work from home or have hybrid work schedules.
But virtual trips can be easily arranged and attended by all team members. Virtual trips can be arranged through the local authorities at the chosen destination or over video conference calls.
Getting team members excited about virtual trips can be achieved by providing them options to choose the trip destination, letting them map out routes to cover, and allowing picking the activities that interest them. Letting the hybrid team members interact with and ask questions from a local tour guide can also keep them interested.
Dress Up Days
Dress-up days can be the easiest hybrid team activities. Once a month, allow team members to suggest and vote on a theme. Once a theme is decided, make it mandatory for team members to show up at work or on video calls dressed according to the chosen theme.
The themes can be related to pop culture, history, or culture. They can even be casual or random. For example, beach day, superheroes, pajama day, Christmas, and carnivals can be easy-to-execute yet fun themes for team members.
Online Art Class
Art classes always make for fun team activities. The team lead or administrative personnel should assemble and send out art kits to all team members to successfully execute this idea. If certain teamwork members work from the office, the art class instructor can be called to work too. Otherwise, an online session can be equally helpful.
Team members should receive enough supplies in the art kit to create two to three artworks. After the instructor directs and guides the creation of one artwork, team members can mutually decide on a theme and create a second artwork on that theme. Team members who are parents can also involve their children in this activity.
Last but not least, team lunches, coffee runs, and tea parties can be easily turned into hybrid team activities. It only requires sending out the food items to the team members wherever they are and arranging a time when everyone can come online and enjoy the food.
