[mawise]

I try to do this with my team at least once a month for a couple hours. Some games we've enjoyed:

Among Us: https://innersloth.itch.io/among-us

Telephone Pictionary: https://rocketcrab.com/game/drawphone

Codenames: https://codenames.game/

[littlecranky67]

+1 on codenames. I played the board game pre-covid and the current online version is browser based, robust, free to play with no ads whatsover (except for the phyical game itself) and no required signup.

[robotmay]

Among Us is a great laugh, we did that as a team last week. Getting your colleague thrown out an airlock for a murder you committed yourself never gets old.

[sneak]

Is it mandatory? If you assume a staff member has x hours available each week for work, is this coming out of x (at the expense of company business) or is it coming out of 168-x (and thus reducing the staff member's time for sleep, shower, cooking, family, et c)?

[mawise]

I do them as part of work hours, and while not mandatory I do strongly encourage everyone to participate. I think the increased team cohesion is well worth 2 hours a month of "lost" productivity.

[novok]

In my experience these things are usually scheduled during working hours as a meeting, and optional.