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      "text": "Sounds like a pretty neat idea and nice way to bring the team together",
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          "text": "Having been fully remote previously, that sounds awful, that goodness my company at the time didn't enforce nonsense like that, I was allowed to get on with my job and then log off.",
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      "text": "I do this with all my teams. Builds trust, psychological safety, empathy, etc. seems trivial but the value gained is immense.",
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          "text": "I organized organized activity of this kind in my last company. When I got fired team founded for me crate of personalized gifts, decorated with our team's coat of arms and years of service. We are in touch and open to help each other.\nWe didn't trust upper management but trusted each other.",
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      "text": "The way that this sounds like a phenomenal bonding activity for a group of people who are without social interactions most of the day",
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          "text": "I don't think team building or an hour of anything is them doing anything for your social life. Just because it is annoying and does not benefit one person it might be the the rest of the team so whatever let them be the Debbie downer.",
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      "text": "As a VP of a fully remote team - I can see this being valuable. While I do not “play games” we do meet three times a week for 1 hour.\n\nThe main problem with remote work and remote employees, they tend to work and think in silos - only work on what is assigned no more and no less. What does the sprint board say. That is fine when you evaluate and value productivity by piece meal or story points. I value productivity as a positive influence towards a common goal. This common goal is set by leadership, management and team together. This is missing in today’s environment. The water cooler talk, break room conversations, passing in the hall all had productive communications that do not happen any more. Teams seem to have just a vague understanding of their teammate - with my not caring anything about their teammates - they are removed, so not important.\n\nI cannot speak for your leadership but I am expecting that they are trying to get the team to see and understand they are part of a bigger picture and need to learn to communicate and trust in a non formal fashion - this is needed for true productivity.\n\nIf you have good leadership, ask them why. I love it when my team asks me why - You might not see why and they do. Management does not always expose things well or sometimes intentional. If you still think it is not needed, let them know and discuss. Be nice and respectful with an open mind. Be expected to finally hear because I want you too - after a couple of pushbacks. Then you can decide your voluntary future with the company.",
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          "text": "Yes I mean I still am looking for improvements and places to refactor and redesign there is still never a time I don't have work regardless of if my assigned work is done this is something good or bad some people seem to have stopped doing. While it would be nice to have a job with some downtime that has never been the case for me as a se. Always something needing upgraded or refactored that feels impossible to get to",
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      "text": "Ok guys you've convinced me, I won't push to eliminate the game hour I will play like a good little boy",
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          "text": "Good boy! Issue resolved. Now you can start working on next week's complaint.",
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      "text": "We do something similar where I work. One downside I've not seen anyone mention is that:\n\n1) if the gathering is not mandatory, then it can be a morale killer for those who are simply too busy to ever join in. Imagine being stacked up to your eyeballs in work that you're scrambling to get completed on schedule while your coworkers are spending their time playing games.\n\n2) if it is mandatory, well now I'm wasting time that I could be spending to get work done. So now I'll have to make up that time on my own time to keep on schedule, which isn't exactly great for morale either.\n\nI think in many cases these kind of activities can be good for remote workers, since working remotely can start to make your coworkers feel more like work bots than actual human beings. But if you work at a place like I do, where people in some roles are given 5 hours of work to have done by the end of the week, while others are given 16 hours of work to be done which must be done by the end of the day, then that can be a real downer for those who either never get to participate or who must participate at a cost to themselves.",
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          "text": "If the workload in the company is that unevenly distributed, then there are bigger problems to deal with than team-building O.o",
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      "text": "My team does this for an hour once a month. We are all remote, it’s very relaxing to chat and play and NOT discuss JIRA tickets for a hour…",
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      "text": "My old team did this weekly for an hour as well. We were spread across time zones so it ended up being 4pm on Fridays for me. It was optional, so I attended the first two and never did it again. I opted to log off and get my weekend started with people I actually wanted to hang out with in real life, not a forced virtual happy hour.",
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          "text": "Yeah, game hour at 4 pm on Fridays seems so stupid. I would never be in a good mood and would just be wanting to sign off for the week",
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          "text": "They’ll use the excuse of we need more team cohesiveness and togetherness as an excuse. This is a way out of it. If they use that excuse you can say that we always do team builders weekly.",
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      "text": "When I've been on teams that did something like this (less frequently), I would enjoy it because that's my personality. It wasn't everyone's cup of tea of course. Inevitably though there would be laughter and often quirky things that would happen. And we'd see each other outside of our usual roles. The \"bonding\" was often a result of the humor and sometimes absurdity of the team game. The gain was a little more safety in our work interactions and often some inside jokes too.",
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          "text": "Does it seem genuine?",
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      "text": "we do this just a couple times a year... i'm not super into it, but at the same time - it is nice to spend some time `at play` with the people you work with... i could not do this once a week though, that is far too often!",
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      "text": "I do this with all my teams too. We have a 30 minute weekly allocated time to not just play a game, but socialise. Usually everyone prefers a game like Scribble io or codenames, but there is no restriction. Its just a tools down time where team members can interact beyond work. Its optional, so we usually get 80-90% turn up. Its great. Maybe you can use anonymous poll to suss people out.",
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      "text": "Opinions on \"mandatory fun\" break down into managers and sales on one side (sometimes product and research) (extroverts) and developers/creatives/project managers [introverts] on the other. Trying to force people to enjoy a \"game\" where they are forced to participate and have no say in the selection of the activity isn't fun or productive.",
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      "text": "I would not engage in the type of activity with the current state of the economy it will be a great excuse to fire you guys!",
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      "text": "Do you get the impression that others enjoy the game (or do not enjoy the game)? Is there an alternative idea that you could recommend?",
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