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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Ways to Have Fun at Work. A lot of stupid stuff in here, along with borderline useful in minority. Warning: the review's going to contain a lot of swearing and a couple of tantrums!

The gigglers in your open space? Team building?! Don't get me started, it's a retarded idea for kids not for mature professionals. While for the younguish employees this may sound like a great way to get to know people twice as old as them probably making them at home via reminding of their fairly recent kindergarten activities , after 10 years constant team-building gets effing BORING!

And I can't even imagine just how deeeply retarded the whole team-building antics must seem to people who have suffered through years of ongoing climbing trees, doing quests, jumping ropes, playing games, making paper pyramids under the freaking rain, etc etc etc.

What the fuck is wrong with our society that we seem to no longer be able to just get acquainted and cooperate with people the regular way? Why to do that I have to first climb some freaking fence, then fly in a helicopter and finally untangle some dreadfully tangled and probably dirty ropes with my teeth?

I'm not a ninja nor I aspire to become one! Q: I am happiest and most productive during the long days of summer, when the sun comes up early and stays up late. Recently, as the seasons began to change, our city experienced a week of dark and rainy days that sent my spirits sagging.

One morning during this week, determined not to let the weather affect my attitude, I burst into song. Q: Many businesses are promoting a fun and flexible work environment by implementing a shortened work week during slow times of the year.

One San Francisco—based company has summer work hours, closing the office at p. The free afternoon may be a time when staff members go to a movie together or just have the freedom to get a head start on their weekend. If it's not compulsory to go wherever the company decided, for example compulsory ice-skating, tree-climbing, other cities, swimming in some freakishly cold sea km to the North of your resident location, hugging live cockroaches, getting buried in some grave for a couple hours psychological training, anyone?

Q: Pay for everyone to go to a conference once a year. First of all, this is used by almost every frigging company on the market and this proves to be a giant waste of my precious personal time.

One of the first indicators of the onset of most mental illness is a loss of the sense of joy in being alive. Organizations that integrate fun into work have lower levels of absenteeism, greater job satisfaction, increased productivity, and less downtime. Metcalf at Digital Equipment Corporation in Colorado Springs, twenty middle managers increased their productivity by 15 percent and reduced their sick days by half. Fun and the energy it creates are contagious.

By far, the most intriguing part of the hundreds of surveys we received are the many stories of the ways that individuals and companies incorporate fun into the workplace. This book is essentially a compilation of these fun and inspiring stories. The book is designed so that you can open it to any page and find valuable ideas to use immediately.

W We have organized the book into seven sections to facilitate your finding a fun idea to suit your particular work situation or need. T In addition, we have included our Twelve-Step Method to Fun, a program we suggest you share with your coworkers, and follow by implementing one step a month for a year.

At the end of the book is our list of suggested readings—books we highly recommend for your reading pleasure and to aid you in your pursuit of fun at work. Anyone can choose to create a fun workplace.

Both qualitative and quantitative data exist to support our belief that a fun work environment can have a positive impact on productivity, quality, customer service, and job satisfaction. But still it is a choice that each of us makes. To infuse your work environment with a spirit of fun, you must value fun as important, you must believe fun to be essential.

It consists of the physical structure of your operation as well as the tone that is set within its walls. It might seem difficult to get a handle on the tone of your environment. It is, however, a real thing and can have tremendous impact on your work. People feel alive and want to give their best effort to the task. Fun can enhance motivation. If work and the work environment are fun, the results will be better.

I know that I prefer clear skies and sunshine. I am happiest and most productive during the long days of summer, when the sun comes up early and stays up late. Recently, as the seasons began to change, our city experienced a week of dark and rainy days that sent my spirits sagging. One morning during this week, determined not to let the weather affect my attitude, I burst into song.

W It made me feel better and it was received with laughter. So encouraged was I by the fun 4 response that I proceeded through the lobby of our office building in full tune, stopping to sing my merry melody to the security guard and the post person. I was chased back to my office with friendly jeers and robust cheers. There is something to be said for carrying a happy tune.

The calendars range in subject matter from Wheel of Fortune puzzles to Dilbert cartoons to gardening tips. A work 5 any businesses are promoting a fun and flexible work environment by implementing a shortened work week during slow times of the year. One San Francisco—based company has summer work hours, closing the office at p.