Series of activities and exercises to counter the “all work and no play” in the office FUN AT THE WORKPLACE!

 August Worse Dressed Day  Instead of a ‘Best Dressed Award’, employees are asked to dress their worst.  The judging panel decides on who is the Worst Dressed Person  Alternatively there can be a separate award for men’s and women’s category  The winners may be presented with a hand mirror with a tag labeled “Mirror-cracking material!” MONTHLY EVENTS

 September: Eid Milan Party in an outdoor setting with stalls for food, mehndi, games for children and a gift bag presented to each family. Gift bag contents:  Eid Greetings card  Chocolates Evening program, Duration about 5 hours.  October: Ludo tournament. An inexpensive activity that can be done in the office meeting rooms. Requirements 10 boards (or more for 40+ participants) 1-2 rooms Time duration 3-4 hours. Winner gets a small prize or trophy MONTHLY EVENTS

 November “Are you smarter than a 5 th Grader?”  Questions based on 5 th grade course-books  Participants have to answer as many correct questions as they can  The team with the most correct answers wins a mock degree and graduation cap.  Duration 3-4 hours  Each team has two members  Participants can choose questions from Math, Science, Geography, History, English Literature, Urdu Literature, English Grammar and Islamic Studies.  Participants cannot choose more than 2 questions from the same subject category and have to answer questions from each subject. MONTHLY EVENTS

 December Slogan and Best Photo Caption Contest Slogan Contest  Employees are divided into groups and develop in-house campaign slogans or themes  HR department forms the judging panel and decides the top 10  The best slogan/theme is voted on by the entire company Photo Caption Contest  The same teams are given a single photo that is circulated around  The team who comes up with the best caption is given a prize  Prize can be a photo-keychain or photo-frame. MONTHLY EVENTS

 January Appreciation Grams  This activity can be carried out separately in each department or project team.  Each person takes a piece of paper (the size of a sticky note) and has to write a few lines of appreciation, thanks, word of advice or good wishes for the future with their name at the end.  Each person has a small box labeled with their own name and the boxes are exchanged with other people until every person has put a note in the box.  This activity is best done in small groups  Max 15 people in a group MONTHLY EVENTS

 Humor Board  Keep a soft-board near the coffee machine where employees can add jokes, riddles, puns or anything that they would like to share.  You can also add inspirational quotes or start a poll related to co- workers such as  Who is the most helpful?  Who comes late to the office the most?  Who drinks the most amount of coffee or tea before 11 am? MORE IDEAS TO PERK UP THE OFFICE

 Play dough activity  Ask employees to create animals, objects, even their bosses, anything which makes them happy  The objects can be kept in a shelf where they are visible to employees  Jigsaw Puzzle Competition  Give each team the same jigsaw puzzle  Whichever team completes the puzzle the fastest, wins  To make the competition tough, use 300-piece puzzles.  Samosa Complain Party  Any person found being negative about the company has to pay a fine of 20 Rupees which are collected in a jar.  At the end of the month, the money from the jar is used to treat everyone from the department to samosas MORE IDEAS TO PERK UP THE OFFICE

 Defend the Egg  Make groups of 4 or 5 people  Each team is given 1 egg, 3 pieces of straw, 2 papers and a piece of paper tape/stapler with limited staple pins  Each team has to invent an egg-holding device which not only secures the egg but should be able to prevent it from breaking if dropped from a height of 5 feet.  Teams should be given a time limit of 20minutes to make their device  In the end, test each group’s device and give them 5 minutes to talk about why or why didn’t their device work and what they learned about team-work, what their team’s strength was, were there any weaknesses, etc.  PS: This activity is very messy and should be done outdoors. MORE IDEAS TO PERK UP THE OFFICE

 Banana Dance Fun way to start off the day! For references d MORE IDEAS TO PERK UP THE OFFICE

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 Get your staff involved Its always a good idea to ask employees what they would like to do. Some people prefer having a half-day rather than indulging in activities which do not appeal to their taste. IF ALL ELSE FAILS, ASK FOR PEOPLE’S OPINION

DON’T FORGET TO HAVE FUN! WHATEVER YOU DO…