6 Online Escape Room Challenges to Motivate your Team

While the lure of working from home is exciting for many workers, it's novelty can wear off over time. Deadlines and commitments aren't always enough motivation.

Keeping remote workers engaged and motivated doesn’t have to be complicated. Here at Dynamic Events, we are specialists in online team building and below are 6 ways to motivate your workforce whilst they work from home.

6 Online Escape Room Challenges to Motivate your Team:

1/ Escape The Office

A fun, online escape team activity. The Virtual Escape Room style game which uses image recognition and augmented reality. Starting in a ‘locked office’, teams are required to work their way through a series of tasks, which are displayed on interactive games screens, earning points as they go, on a mission to ‘escape’ within the 60 minute time limit. As well as being enjoyable, the challenge encourages team building and group engagement.

2/ Arctic Survival

Survival based virtual escape room game for remote team building. Working in teams and against the clock, players have to crack codes and implement their survival plan in order to get out alive. Using a combination of skills like time management and critical thinking, your team will work against the clock, cracking codes and implementing your survival plan in order to get out alive.

3/ Spy School

Do you fancy yourself as the James Bond or more the Austin Powers of the espionage world? Learn to become the ultimate agent and solve the case in this high-energy, competitive challenge! This engaging and collaborative team activity is designed to put your teamwork, communication and memory to the test. But remember, you'll need your very best disguises too!

There's no time to lose...It’s a race against the clock to earn your training badges and solve the case!

4/ Mission To Mars

The next generation in virtual and online team development for remote teams. The focus here is very much on giving a learning twist to your virtual team building event and supports the idea of looking beyond or going outside your comfort zone to perform as a virtual team.

The basic premise of the game is that different information is shared across the different participants in the team so they must collaborate as best as they can to solve the puzzles in the fastest time with the best accuracy.

5/ Remote Manor House Murder

Have you got a knack for solving mysteries? Dive into the plot of Remote Manor House Murder! Work with your team to uncover clues, question suspects, and bring the culprit to justice all in an interactive online experience that’s as thrilling as it is mysterious.

6/ Codebreaker

The Codebreaker is a virtual team building activity for remote workers. This problem-solving team activity is suitable for groups of any size. It involves an hour-long collection of virtual tasks, where teams have the chance to solve puzzles, tackle questions and answer riddles.

The Codebreaker is an Escape type game with the aim of cracking the code of the computer before the time runs out. You will receive a hint per each riddle solved or task completed. Only by merging all the hints you will be able to crack the computer's code.

As well as being enjoyable, the challenge encourages team building and group engagement.