Escape room blog: escape rooms

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

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

Any company that's trying to recruit remotely is going to come up against a number of problems. Thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses are having to look at new ideas and practical solutions. For Royal Caribbean Cruisers, they opted for something totally new, escape room games. And the whole process came about almost by accident.

Imagine turning up for a job interview and instead of the long wait to be interviewed, or being asked to talk about your past career challenges, you are unceremoniously ushered into a darkened room. Maybe handcuffed and hooded! We’re not quite sure that’s legal, but you get the point.

Over time, the ideas behind corporate team-building have changed significantly, though the myths of what team-building is about still persists. Today, we're going to have a look at the validity of some of these out-dated ideas about the content and rle team-building can play within a company.

We all have felt that awkward silence that seems to last for eternity when a manager asked for feedback. Everyone stares into the depths of their coffee cup and says a tiny prayer that the manager will just give up and go away. 

For a year now, a lot of employees have been forced into home office by the Covid restrictions...

Escape room game businesses are the same as any other business in that they need to be constantly evolving. Since their inception, over sixteen years ago, these game have evolved into a huge number of themes and genres...

Team building is the means by which a business can motivate and create a team spirit among it's participants. But you could do that, just as badly, by simply asking everyone to stand and sing the company song, first thing in the morning

Living in these strange times of Covid-19, means that a lot of our day to day social interaction has become very limited indeed. Many things that we previously took for granted are now out of reach.