Question of the day: 260 good daily questions for work

How to run a question of the day

Five minutes to set up, then two minutes a day.

1. 1Pick a home for it. A Slack or Teams channel everyone already reads, or the first two minutes of standup.
2. 2Post at the same time every day. Mid-morning works: people have settled in and aren't yet buried.
3. 3Answer first. Whoever posts it answers in one line. It sets the length and shows it's safe to be a little silly.
4. 4Keep answers optional. Reactions count. Nobody gets chased for skipping a day.
5. 5Rotate the asker. A different person posts each week. They can use the picker above or a question of their own.
6. 6Bring the best ones back. Quote a great answer in a team meeting. It tells people the channel is read.

In Slack, Teams and standups

• Slack. Make a #question-of-the-day channel and use a scheduled workflow in Workflow Builder to post a reminder each morning.
• Microsoft Teams. Post in a team channel and ask people to reply in the thread. A recurring Power Automate flow can post the reminder for you.
• Standups. Ask the question before the updates, one sentence each. It adds about two minutes for a team of eight.
• Video calls. Put the question in the chat as people join and read a few answers out once everyone is in.

Running a standup rather than a channel? Our morning meeting questions are built for the first five minutes of a call, and quick yes or no questions get a whole room answering in seconds.

What makes a good question of the day

Good questions of the day have five things in common.

• Easy to answer in one line. "What was your first job?" beats "Describe your career path."
• No wrong answers. Opinions and stories, not knowledge tests.
• Safe for everyone. Skip politics, religion, money, health, age and dating.
• Mix the weight. Mostly light, with a deeper question once a week, often on Fridays.
• Specific beats general. "Best thing you ate on a trip" gets better answers than "Do you like food?"

60 fun questions of the day

Light, quick and good for any day of the week.

1. 1.What's a skill you'd love to learn in a weekend?
2. 2.If you could have any animal as a coworker, which would you pick?
3. 3.What's the best thing you've bought for under $20?
4. 4.Which fictional world would you most like to visit for a day?
5. 5.What song do you know every word to?
6. 6.What would your walk-up song be?
7. 7.If you had a theme song that played when you entered a room, what would it be?
8. 8.What's the most useless talent you have?
9. 9.Which emoji do you use the most?
10. 10.What's a movie you can watch again and again?
11. 11.If you could instantly master one instrument, which one?
12. 12.What's your go-to karaoke song?
13. 13.Which game show would you do well on?
14. 14.If you wrote a book, what would the title be?
15. 15.What's the best name you've heard for a pet?
16. 16.What's a hobby you picked up and dropped?
17. 17.Cats, dogs, or neither?
18. 18.What's the weirdest thing you believed as a kid?
19. 19.If you could swap lives with anyone for a day, who would it be?
20. 20.What would you name your boat?
21. 21.What's a TV show you'd recommend to everyone?
22. 22.If you had to wear one outfit forever, what would it be?
23. 23.What's the best costume you've ever worn?
24. 24.Which superpower would be most useful on a Monday?
25. 25.What's your favorite board game or card game?
26. 26.If you opened a small shop, what would it sell?
27. 27.What's the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
28. 28.What's a word you love the sound of?
29. 29.If your life had a narrator, who would you want it to be?
30. 30.What's the most interesting thing on your desk right now?
31. 31.What would be the first thing you'd do with a free afternoon?
32. 32.Early bird or night owl?
33. 33.What's the best advice you've gotten from a movie?
34. 34.Which decade's music do you like best?
35. 35.What's a small thing that instantly improves your day?
36. 36.If you could have dinner with any fictional character, who?
37. 37.What's the strangest food combination you secretly enjoy?
38. 38.What's the best sound in the world?
39. 39.If you were a kitchen appliance, which would you be?
40. 40.What's a hill you're willing to defend, however small?
41. 41.Which childhood toy would you buy again today?
42. 42.What's the funniest autocorrect you've sent?
43. 43.What would your superhero name be?
44. 44.What's your favorite smell?
45. 45.If you could add one holiday to the calendar, what would it celebrate?
46. 46.What's something you're surprisingly good at?
47. 47.Which app could you not live without?
48. 48.What's the best compliment you've ever received?
49. 49.If you could star in any movie genre, which one?
50. 50.What's the most memorable concert or show you've been to?
51. 51.Would you rather explore space or the deep ocean?
52. 52.What's your favorite way to spend a rainy day?
53. 53.Which celebrity would you want as a neighbor?
54. 54.What's a trend you never understood?
55. 55.If you had a robot helper, what's the first chore you'd give it?
56. 56.What's your favorite piece of trivia?
57. 57.What's a sport you'd like to try once?
58. 58.What's the best gift you've ever given?
59. 59.If animals could talk, which would be the rudest?
60. 60.What's one thing on your bucket list that's easy to do?

Question of the day for work: 50 questions

About how people work, learn and got here. Nothing that feels like a performance review.

1. 61.What was your first job?
2. 62.What's one tool or app that saves you time every week?
3. 63.What's the best piece of career advice you've received?
4. 64.What does a perfect workday look like for you?
5. 65.What did you want to be when you grew up?
6. 66.What's a work win from this week, big or small?
7. 67.Which skill would you like to get better at this year?
8. 68.What's your favorite way to take a break during the day?
9. 69.Who's someone at work you've learned a lot from?
10. 70.What's something about your job most people don't know?
11. 71.What's the best meeting you've ever been in, and why?
12. 72.Do you work better with music, silence or background noise?
13. 73.What's one habit that keeps you organized?
14. 74.What's the most unusual job you've ever had?
15. 75.What's a project you're proud of?
16. 76.If you could shadow anyone in the company for a day, who would it be?
17. 77.What's your favorite spot to work outside your desk?
18. 78.What's your morning routine before work?
19. 79.What's a book or podcast that changed how you work?
20. 80.What's one thing that makes a team great?
21. 81.How do you reset after a tough day?
22. 82.What's the best way someone has thanked you at work?
23. 83.What's a mistake that taught you something useful?
24. 84.Which part of your job would you never give up?
25. 85.What's a small change that would make our week easier?
26. 86.What would you teach in a 10-minute lunch and learn?
27. 87.What's your favorite question to ask in an interview?
28. 88.What's the best team outing you've been on?
29. 89.What's one thing you'd automate if you could?
30. 90.What does a good day look like for our customers?
31. 91.What's the most helpful feedback you've ever gotten?
32. 92.If you could add one perk to the office, what would it be?
33. 93.What's something you've learned from a coworker recently?
34. 94.What's your favorite thing about the work we do?
35. 95.How do you like to celebrate finishing a big project?
36. 96.What's a workplace tradition you'd love to start?
37. 97.What's the best desk snack?
38. 98.What's one word that describes your week so far?
39. 99.Which job would you try if you had a year off to experiment?
40. 100.What's the most useful keyboard shortcut you know?
41. 101.What's one goal you're working toward this quarter?
42. 102.What's the first thing you do when you start your day?
43. 103.What did your first boss teach you?
44. 104.Inbox zero or happy chaos?
45. 105.What's a question you wish people asked you more at work?
46. 106.Who on the team deserves a shout-out this week?
47. 107.What's your favorite way to learn something new?
48. 108.What's the best email sign-off?
49. 109.What's a part of your job that would surprise your 15-year-old self?
50. 110.What's the most fun you've had at work?

Want a quick game instead of a question? Try one of our team meeting games, most of them under ten minutes.

40 deep questions of the day

For Fridays or smaller teams. Answers can stay short.

1. 111.What's something you've changed your mind about?
2. 112.What's a moment that shaped who you are?
3. 113.What does a good life look like to you?
4. 114.What's something you're grateful for today?
5. 115.Who has had the biggest influence on you?
6. 116.What's a lesson you learned the hard way?
7. 117.What would you tell yourself on your first day of work?
8. 118.What makes you feel most like yourself?
9. 119.What's a fear you've overcome?
10. 120.What's a small act of kindness you still remember?
11. 121.What's one thing you want to be remembered for?
12. 122.What do you value most in a friend?
13. 123.What's a goal you've reached that once felt impossible?
14. 124.What's something you're still learning?
15. 125.When do you feel most creative?
16. 126.What's a risk you're glad you took?
17. 127.What's a belief you hold that most people don't?
18. 128.What does success mean to you right now?
19. 129.What's a tradition from your childhood you want to keep?
20. 130.What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?
21. 131.What's the best decision you've made in the last year?
22. 132.What's something that always calms you down?
23. 133.What are you looking forward to this month?
24. 134.What's a compliment you think about often?
25. 135.What's one thing you wish more people understood about you?
26. 136.What's a book that changed how you see the world?
27. 137.What's your idea of a perfect day off?
28. 138.Who would you like to thank but haven't yet?
29. 139.What's something you've done that you're quietly proud of?
30. 140.What's the most important thing you've learned from your family?
31. 141.What does rest look like for you?
32. 142.What's a question you'd love to know the answer to?
33. 143.What's a habit you'd like to build this year?
34. 144.What's a place that feels like home?
35. 145.When did you last try something for the first time?
36. 146.What's the kindest thing a stranger has done for you?
37. 147.What's something you used to dislike but now enjoy?
38. 148.What do you want more of in your life?
39. 149.What would your ten-years-ago self think of you now?
40. 150.What's one thing you'd like to get better at saying no to?

35 food questions of the day

The most reliable topic there is. Everyone has an opinion.

1. 151.What's your all-time favorite meal?
2. 152.What's a dish you can cook really well?
3. 153.Sweet breakfast or savory breakfast?
4. 154.What's a food you hated as a kid but love now?
5. 155.What's the best thing you've ever eaten on a trip?
6. 156.Pineapple on pizza: yes or no?
7. 157.What's your go-to snack in the afternoon?
8. 158.What's a recipe someone in your family is famous for?
9. 159.Which cuisine could you eat every day?
10. 160.What's your coffee or tea order?
11. 161.What's the best sandwich you've ever had?
12. 162.What would your last meal be?
13. 163.What's a food you'll never try?
14. 164.What's your favorite comfort food?
15. 165.What's the best restaurant in your town?
16. 166.What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
17. 167.Which fruit is the most underrated?
18. 168.What's your pizza topping of choice?
19. 169.What's a dish you'd love to learn to make?
20. 170.Breakfast for dinner: great idea or never?
21. 171.What's the spiciest thing you've ever eaten?
22. 172.What's your favorite food holiday tradition?
23. 173.Which condiment do you put on everything?
24. 174.What's your favorite food from your hometown?
25. 175.Chocolate or vanilla?
26. 176.What's the most unusual food you've tried?
27. 177.What's your perfect burger order?
28. 178.Which snack would you bring to a desert island?
29. 179.What's your favorite thing to grill?
30. 180.What's the best cookie?
31. 181.Tacos or burritos?
32. 182.What's your favorite soup?
33. 183.Do you meal prep, or decide when you're hungry?
34. 184.What's your favorite thing to order at a bakery?
35. 185.What's the best potluck dish to bring?

35 travel questions of the day

Works even for people who don't travel much: hometowns and dream trips count.

1. 186.What's the best trip you've ever taken?
2. 187.Where would you go if you could leave tomorrow?
3. 188.Beach vacation or mountain vacation?
4. 189.What's a place you'd happily visit again?
5. 190.What's the most beautiful place you've ever seen?
6. 191.Window seat or aisle seat?
7. 192.What's a city you'd love to live in for a year?
8. 193.What's the longest trip you've ever taken?
9. 194.What's one thing you always pack?
10. 195.What's your dream road trip?
11. 196.What's the best souvenir you've brought home?
12. 197.Plan every detail, or figure it out when you get there?
13. 198.What's the most underrated place you've visited?
14. 199.Which country's food would you travel just to try?
15. 200.What's a travel mishap that turned into a good story?
16. 201.Train, plane or car for a long trip?
17. 202.What's a hidden gem in your hometown?
18. 203.Which landmark would you like to see in person?
19. 204.What's the best hotel or place you've stayed?
20. 205.City break or nature escape?
21. 206.What's a language you'd learn for a trip?
22. 207.What's your favorite thing to do on a layover?
23. 208.What's the farthest you've been from home?
24. 209.Where did you go on your favorite childhood trip?
25. 210.What's a place that surprised you?
26. 211.What's your favorite way to explore a new city?
27. 212.Would you rather travel back in time or into the future?
28. 213.Which national park would you like to visit?
29. 214.What's the best travel tip you know?
30. 215.Solo trip or group trip?
31. 216.What's a festival or event you'd travel for?
32. 217.What's your best airport story?
33. 218.If you could teleport to one place for lunch, where?
34. 219.What's the next trip on your list?
35. 220.Camping or glamping?

40 seasonal questions

The picker serves these only in their season.