Remote team building activities people show up for
The remote team building activities that work have a live host, fit inside 60 minutes of the working day and ask nothing of people except to join the call. We host games and workshops on Zoom and ship kits to every home. Below: what to book by goal, a 12-month calendar and how to fill the call.
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Remote team building activities, picked by goal
Decide what you want from the hour first: a laugh, a contest, a skill or something to hold. Every session below has a live host on your video call, and prices are live from our catalog.
Remote team building games that make people laugh
For teams that only ever talk about work. Low stakes, no trivia knowledge needed.
Fun-Filled Feud
From $975 · covers 25 people(about $39 each)1 hour
Family Feud-style survey rounds with a twist. Teams guess the top answers, and the wrong ones are half the fun.
Poll Points!
From $850 · covers 25 people(about $34 each)1 hour
Guess how the group will vote on fresh poll questions. More about reading people than knowing facts.
Improv
From $9501 hour
Improv exercises built on "Yes, and". People practice storytelling and handling the unexpected.
Games for teams that like to compete
Small teams and friendly competition. Mix departments so people meet someone new.
Quiz Showdown!
From $975 · covers 25 people(about $39 each)1 hour
Teams test what they know and how fast they think, racing the clock and each other.
Beach Vacate-tion Escape Room
From $875 · covers 25 people(about $35 each)1 hour
Solve puzzles and play games in small teams to earn your way off a mysterious island.
Office Olympics
From $975 · covers 25 people(about $39 each)1 hour
Three Olympic-style challenges led by a host. The group picks the games, teams switch and medals are earned.
Workshops that teach a skill
An expert facilitator, one practical topic and something people use the same week.
You're On Mute!
From $850 · covers 25 people(about $34 each)1 hour
How to present, hold attention and come across with confidence, on screen or in the room.
Maximizing Time Management
$1,200 flat rate1 hour
Beat procrastination, prioritize well and get more done in less time.
Let's Stand Up to Stress
From $850 · covers 25 people(about $34 each)1 hour
Simple relaxation and movement techniques to release tension and get energy back on a busy day.
Kit workshops: make something together
A box arrives at every home, then a live instructor leads the class. The one format that puts something real in people's hands.
Kit included
Candle Making
$68/person + $379 base fee1 hour
A relaxed, hands-on hour where everyone pours and scents their own candle to keep.
Kit included
Terrarium Making
$84/person + $379 base fee1 hour
Build a small terrarium with air plants. All materials are in the box, and it lives on the desk after.
Kit included
Coffee Tasting
$89/person + $379 base fee1 hour
Taste and compare different coffees with a guide. A natural fit for a morning slot.
Hosted games run on Zoom by default, or on Teams, Google Meet or Webex on request. See every format on virtual team building, or all team building kits.
How kits reach every home address
Team building for remote teams gets harder the moment something has to be mailed to 40 different homes. We do that part: one kit per person, packed, shipped and tracked to the address each person gives us.
Continental US shipping is included. Alaska, Hawaii, US territories, Canada and international addresses add a per-person charge, and not every kit ships abroad: each kit's page shows where it goes. Addresses outside the US are due 4 weeks before the event, so book about 5 weeks out. Teammates in several countries? Read how global kit shipping works.
Book 3 weeks ahead
Reserve the date with an estimated headcount. You confirm final numbers before anything ships.
People enter their own address
Each participant submits their own shipping details, so you are not chasing a spreadsheet of home addresses. US addresses are due 2 weeks before the event.
Kits ship and are tracked
Every kit is tracked on its own and typically lands at least 3 days early, which leaves time to fix a missing parcel.
Everyone opens the box on the call
A live instructor leads the hour on your video call. People make, taste or plant along at the same pace.
A 12-month remote team engagement calendar
One hosted event a quarter, and one free remote employee engagement idea for every month between. Copy it, then swap in your own dates.
JanuaryFree
A new-year check-in round
Open the first team meeting with one question each from these check-in questions.
FebruaryHosted
A game to break up winter
Quiz Showdown! or Fun-Filled Feud. Send the calendar hold in mid-January.
MarchFree
A question a day in the team channel
One light question every morning for a month. The question of the day generator picks them for you.
AprilFree
Five-minute meeting openers
Start each weekly meeting with one of these 5-minute team building activities.
MayHosted
A kit workshop
Terrarium Making or Candle Making. Kits need 3 weeks, so book in April.
JuneFree
A game hour you run yourselves
Pick one of these virtual team building games and let a different person host each time.
JulyFree
A photo thread
One prompt a week: your desk, your view, your lunch. No meeting, and every time zone can join.
AugustHosted
An escape room
Beach Vacate-tion Escape Room: small teams, one hour, nothing to ship.
SeptemberFree
A round of icebreaker bingo
Mix in everyone hired since spring with a round of icebreaker bingo.
OctoberFree
A remote spirit week
Five themed days people join from home. Themes are in these spirit week ideas.
NovemberFree
A thank-you round
Ten minutes of specific thank-yous in the team meeting, or one of these gratitude activities.
DecemberHosted
The year-end party
A kit at every door: Cookie Decorating or Hot Chocolate Bomb. Book early for December.
Want a hosted event every month, or several teams on one plan? A multi-event program plans the whole calendar at once, so each event is not a new project.
How to get remote people to show up
Attendance is decided before the event starts: by the hour you pick, the invite you send and who else is going.
- Hold it inside working hours. An evening call competes with dinner, school pickup and the rest of someone's life. Mid-morning or early afternoon gets the most yeses.
- Pick the hour that suits every time zone. For a US-wide team, 1 p.m. Eastern is 10 a.m. Pacific. Offices abroad? Use the time-zone finder on our global team building page.
- Keep it to 60 minutes. Long enough to finish a game, short enough that nobody has to move a deadline to come.
- Send a calendar hold 2 to 3 weeks out. Send it from the team's manager, not a shared mailbox. A hold on the calendar beats an announcement in chat.
- Say exactly what will happen. “A host runs a trivia game. Bring a laptop, nothing else” fills more seats than “team social”.
- Make cameras optional. Pick formats people can play by voting, typing in chat or clicking an answer, so nobody has to perform to take part.
- Have leaders join and play. When the manager skips it, the team reads that as permission to skip it too.
What remote teams get wrong
Six habits that make remote team building feel like one more meeting.
An open video call with no plan
A "virtual happy hour" with 20 people and no structure turns into three people talking. Give the hour a host, a game or small rooms.One big event a year
A December party cannot carry twelve months. Something small every month does more than one big thing.Trivia every single time
The same quick people win and everyone else goes quiet. Rotate between something funny, something competitive and something hands-on.Making it mandatory
Required attendance and forced cameras build resentment. Make the hour good enough that people choose to come.Copying the office
Pizza parties and hallway chats do not translate to a screen. Use formats built for one: hosted games, kits and threads people answer on their own time.No owner and no budget
When team building is nobody's job, it does not happen. Name one person and give them an amount per person per quarter.
Not everyone at home? If part of the team shares an office, see hybrid team building for the room setup. If your people sit in several countries, see global team building for time zones and international shipping.
What our clients say
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Remote team building questions
What are the best remote team building activities?
The ones with a live host and a clear structure, so nobody has to carry the conversation: Family Feud-style games and poll games for laughs, trivia and escape rooms for competition, short skill workshops, and kit workshops where everyone makes the same thing at home. Pick by what you want from the hour, then rotate.
How do you do team building for remote workers who never meet?
Run it on the video call the team already uses, inside working hours, for 60 minutes. Put people in small mixed teams so everyone talks, and let a host run the game so the manager can play. Between events, keep a light ritual going in chat, like a question of the day.
What are good remote employee engagement activities between events?
Free, small and regular beats big and rare: a check-in question at the start of the weekly meeting, a question of the day in the team channel, a photo thread, a five-minute game before the agenda, or a spirit week people join from home. The 12-month calendar on this page has one for every month.
How often should a remote team do team building?
A good rhythm is one hosted event a quarter and one small free ritual in each month between. Teams that are growing fast or newly remote often start with a hosted event every month, then ease off once people know each other.
How much does remote team building cost?
Hosted games are priced as a package for the group and kit workshops per person. Quiz Showdown! starts at $975 for up to 25 people (about $39 each). Candle Making is $68 a person plus a $379 base fee. Each card on this page shows its live price, and you see the full price before you book.
Do people have to turn their cameras on?
That is your call as the organizer, and we suggest making cameras optional and saying so in the invite. People tend to switch them on once a game gets going, or to show what they made in a kit workshop. Small-team rounds are easier when teammates can see each other, so encourage it without requiring it.
How do kits get to everyone's home?
Each participant submits their own shipping address, and we pack, ship and track a kit for every person. Book 3 weeks ahead; US addresses are due 2 weeks before the event. Addresses in Canada or abroad are due 4 weeks before, so book about 5 weeks out. Continental US shipping is included. Alaska, Hawaii, US territories, Canada and international addresses add a per-person charge on the kits that ship there.
Which video platforms do you use?
Zoom by default, with Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or Webex on request. Music Bingo is Zoom only. Book hosted games about 2 weeks ahead and kit workshops 3 weeks ahead.
Keep planning
Hybrid team building
Formats that work with half the team in a room and half on Zoom, plus a setup checklist.
ExploreGlobal team building
Time-zone scheduling, international kit shipping and language-light games.
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Hosted 60-minute skill workshops on communication, trust, stress and leadership.
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