Escape room blog

Forming and maintaining relationships with your co-workers can be difficult when working remotely. The physical distance between people can eventually lead to feelings of isolation, which can cause people to feel unsupported and disconnected from those they work with. Fortunately, a Forbes article on teamwork shows that lots of communication between teams can help build and maintain a good remote

Building a great autonomous team is one thing. And having a group of people communicating well and working together is a huge benefit and the work situation. But unfortunately, nothing happens in a vacuum. One of the most important factors of any team building is finding a leader who is able to help the team by steering them towards predefined and clear goals.

Since its inception in Japan in the early 2000’s, escape room games have become much more than just a trend. Go to any city anywhere in the western world, and you'll find a whole load of escape room games companies waiting to entertain you.

Instead of looking at escape room games for the public or for business team buildings, we thought that today we could have a look at digital escape room games for the classroom situation. A real brick-and-mortar escape room game is a great tool for fostering collaboration, communication, creativity, and also, those all important, critical thinking skills.

The evergreen debate about remote vs in office is often centred around where the worker is going to be more productive. But in some ways this is a wrongheaded approach. The real question is which space is better for the worker to feel focused on their tasks.

Today you’ll find that many websites will give you the opportunity to represent yourself with a fictional cartoony picture which is known as an avatar. On the whole, these will have facial features along with some clothing and accessories.

Over the last few years we've seen a huge increase in the use of data and analytics in HR departments in companies all over the world. At first glance this may seem to be a trend of technology as opposed to the human factor.

Since their humble beginnings around 20-years ago, corporate team building has evolved into a completely different beast. Years ago, there was no better method of gaining disdain from all your employees other than by encouraging them to take part in a team building exercise, using such methods as childish trust falls, silly office games and rope courses. Thank God things have moved on for the bett

We're sure that everyone is a little nervous when the time comes round to choosing a team building event. More especially so if you're in charge of making the decision.

There’s a good reason why most employees tend to cringe at the words “team building.” That’s because it brings back previous deeply repressed memories of awful attempts by management to inject some sort of team spirit into the work environment. One of the big problems with the team building genre is the fact that it is so broad and can cover so many different activities. Unfortunately, many of the

If you're working a regular job, then the idea of self-employment must seem very tempting. You imagine working your own hours, doing something you enjoy, and getting paid what you think you're actually worth. Many people in those shoes have thought about jumping on the latest and hottest craze, escape room games. Maybe you've played through a few, seen the number of bookings, and then done some ru

As a business owner of an escape room it's normal that when we want to hire the best we already have an idea of what that should be. And to be truthful, it's often going to be pretty unrealistic. Your ideal candidate is a people person who has the skills of Superman, as well as a will to go as quickly as a Formula One driver. We want someone who is mindful of others all the time and is able to kno