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Mandatory fun. If those two words send a shiver down your spine, you’re not alone. We’ve all been there: the cringey trust falls, the awkward icebreakers, the “surprise” team outing that everyone secretly dreads.

In theory, team-building activities are supposed to boost morale and make company events enjoyable. In practice, they often induce more eye-rolls than high-fives. So how do you actually make team fun… well, fun? This blog post will dig into what employees loathe about typical team-building, and how to turn those fails into genuinely enjoyable experiences for remote-first startups, hybrid teams, and mid-sized groups. We’ll pull some real (and really funny) examples from Reddit to illustrate the pitfalls and offer team building activities that don’t suck.

By the end, you’ll have plenty of team retreat planning tips, ideas for fun virtual team activities, and a game plan for gathering feedback to keep improving. Let’s break the cycle of awkward trust falls and create team events people actually want to attend.