Improv workshops, scavenger hunts, escape rooms or after-hour drinks will not boost employee engagement if they are mandated by human resources, they say
Radhika Panjwani is a former journalist from Toronto and a blogger.
“I define ‘mandatory fun’ as management on high, making decisions about what kind of fun employees should have,” he says. “I am referring to the kind of activities that if employees aren’t taking part in , then they’re not being team players. Team-building is only effective when everybody wants to be there.”
“The FAANG companies kickstarted what I call the ‘kindergarten office,’ an office that resembles a kindergarten class rather than a workplace,” he says. “Other tech companies started to copy that and it soon began spreading to other industries who copied the idea without understanding the ‘why’ behind it.”
Lunch and learns, he says, are an example of a good activity. Companies can encourage their employees to present a topic they’re passionate about without putting pressure on people to attend the sessions, he said.Trent Davis, director of product management and marketing at Lennox International, Inc., a U.S.-based provider of climate control products, recently experienced an ‘aha’ moment when his LinkedIn post on mandatory fun went viral.
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