44 would you rather questions for work
Work-safe would you rather questions for a morning meeting, a team icebreaker or a new starter's first week. Read one aloud, let each person choose, and anyone may pass or skip the reason.
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Quick warm-ups
Would you rather start every workday with your favorite breakfast waiting at your desk or with a ten-minute walk outside?
Would you rather have a desk by a big sunny window or a desk right next to the snack shelf?
Would you rather choose the office music for a week or choose the team lunch spot for a month?
Would you rather have a chair that gives a gentle massage or a desk that rises and lowers when you ask it to?
Would you rather have a personal assistant for your email or a personal chef for your lunches?
Would you rather have every meeting last exactly fifteen minutes or have one two-hour meeting a week and no others?
Would you rather win the office award for the best coffee mug or for the most impressive desk plant?
Would you rather work from a mountain cabin for a week or from a seaside café for a week?
Would you rather have a coffee machine that makes any drink you name or a fridge that is always stocked with your favorite snacks?
Would you rather have a nap pod in the office or a slide from the top floor down to the lobby?
The workday
Would you rather tackle your hardest task first thing in the morning or save it for after lunch?
Would you rather plan your whole week on Monday morning or plan each day the evening before?
Would you rather check messages at set times twice a day or answer them as they arrive?
Would you rather take meeting notes by hand or type them on a laptop?
Would you rather present an idea with slides or with a live demo?
Would you rather write the first draft or edit someone else's draft?
Would you rather work with music in your headphones or in complete silence?
Would you rather learn a new tool from a short video or from a written step-by-step guide?
Would you rather tidy up a messy spreadsheet or untangle a long, confusing email thread?
Would you rather spend a day on lots of short tasks or a day on one big task with no interruptions?
Would you rather finish one project before starting the next or juggle several small projects at the same time?
Would you rather get a quick thank-you after every task or one big thank-you at the end of a project?
Would you rather try a tricky problem on your own first or ask a colleague about it straight away?
Office, remote and hybrid
Would you rather keep your camera on for every video call or never use video on a call again?
Would you rather join calls from a perfectly quiet home office or from a café with great coffee and a little background noise?
Would you rather use a virtual background of outer space or of a coral reef on every call?
Would you rather have a dog-friendly office or an office with a rooftop garden?
Would you rather have a ten-minute walk to work or a forty-minute train ride with a guaranteed seat and time to read?
Would you rather have an extra monitor or a computer that never needs to restart for updates?
Would you rather keep a spotless, empty desk or a desk full of plants and small souvenirs?
Would you rather be in charge of the office holiday decorations or in charge of keeping the office plants alive?
Would you rather have the whole team in the office on the same two days or let everyone pick their own office days?
Would you rather have a table tennis table in the office or a quiet reading corner?
Just for fun
Would you rather have a theme song play every time you walk into a meeting or hear a small round of applause every time you send an email?
Would you rather have a robot that takes the meeting notes or a robot that refills everyone's coffee?
Would you rather your team run a food truck for a day or a bookshop for a day?
Would you rather have the whole team swap jobs for one day or swap desks for one month?
Would you rather give every meeting a hat theme or a snack theme?
Would you rather compete against another team in a cooking challenge or in a trivia quiz?
Would you rather have a teleporter from your front door to your desk or be able to work from any country for a month?
Would you rather have the elevator play your favorite song or have the break room smell like fresh bread all day?
Would you rather write the office newsletter for a month or plan the next team celebration?
Would you rather have every email you send come out clear and friendly on the first try or have every meeting you join end five minutes early?
Would you rather speak every language your customers speak or type twice as fast as you do now?
Plan the round and team scores
8 turns × 60 seconds = 8 minutes of play, plus instructions and breaks.
60
These are adjustable house rules. Pause whenever the group needs more time.
Team 1: 0
Team 2: 0
Use this set with a group
Read a prompt, allow thinking time, then invite an answer or a pass. For a timed round, choose a turn length before starting. A host can keep the printed answers out of view until the round ends.