Why an Escape Room is the Perfect Team-Building Exercise

You may have considered going to an escape room with your family or friends, but have you thought about hitting a local escape room with your coworkers in a teambuilding exercise? Escape-room games are the perfect environment for a corporate function or an office party and there are many valuable lessons that can be incorporated into the fun. Whether you’re a manager looking to bring the team closer together or a group of employees who need a break from the daily grind, escape rooms provide a fun, clean, and safe environment for a corporate outing. Here are some of the benefits. 

Team-Building Benefits to Escape Rooms

Escape room games provide a unique opportunity for individuals to work together to solve problems. Unlike competitive games, like softball or volleyball, an escape room team works together to reach a mutual goal. The games encourage full participation and are structured in such a way that one or two people can’t garner all or most of the credit for a successful outcome. In fact, if a team doesn’t work together, they’re unlikely to escape from the room in the allotted time—usually an hour. Escape rooms are challenging and a failure to solve the game is by no means an indictment on the quality of the team. It just may mean that the team needs to think more “outside the box.”

Escape Rooms are Safe and Business Friendly

One of the problems with many corporate outings is that they encourage dangerous and unprofessional situations. When a company hosts a picnic or sponsors a happy hour event, there’s often alcohol served, which can lead to reckless behavior. Intercompany sporting events can result in injuries and the employer can be held liable. While escape room games are intense and suspenseful, there is no physical danger. Some escape rooms do serve alcohol, but drunken behavior is not tolerated and the pace of the game usually doesn’t allow time to top off beverages. Inappropriate behavior that would violate most companies’ policies would also not be tolerated in the family-friendly escape rooms. 

Escape Rooms for Large Groups

Larger businesses may be hesitant about scheduling an escape room outing because they’re concerned about accommodating their full staff. While it might not be possible to bring a hundred or more employees to an escape room outing, many facilities, like Amaze Room Escapes in Raliegh, North Carolina, can accommodate up to 26 participants. A place like this can host even more with proper scheduling. Additionally, most escape rooms offer corporate discounts and bulk rates. So, you can either plan for a specific team of executives, sales people, et cetera, or just schedule multiple events. 

Escape Rooms Build Lasting Memories

Escape rooms are fun and challenging, but maybe the greatest rewards are the memories your employees take with them. Whether they succeed or fail in the escape room is almost secondary to the lessons and pictures that they take away with them.