200+ Icebreaker

Questions for Work

Are you more likely to get sucked into a Do you have any Christmas holiday travel Do you take notes or jot down ideas online
social media rabbit hole when you work plans? or with a pen and paper?
from home?

Do you have any Christmas traditions? Do you think you could live without your
Are you more productive in a home office, smartphone (or other technology item) for
at the kitchen table, from bed? 24 hours?
Do you have any pet peeves?
Are you more productive in the morning or Do you watch Netflix shows? What's your
at night? favorite?
Do you have any pets in your office?

Assuming you have an office with a view, Do you work better at home with
what would you want the view to be of? Do you have any short term goals? What are background noise? Is the TV on? Radio?
you looking to achieve within the next year?

Are you wearing pants during this meeting? Do you work better in the morning or at
Do you like working from your house or night?
prefer to go to coffee shops/co-working
spaces?
How often do you work from your bed?
How do you stay productive and motivated
working virtually?
Do you prefer team or individual sports?
Best professional development book youʼve
ever read?
How many books did you read last year?
Do you prefer to avoid or confront conflict?
Choose two-coworkers youʼd want on your
team during a zombie apocalypse. How many cups of coffee or tea do you
Do you prefer to receive recognition in have every day?
public or private?
Describe your team in one word.
How many pairs of shoes do you own?
Do you prefer to work in an office or from
home?
Describe Your Worst Date Ever.
How many states have you been to?
Do you prefer wine or beer?
Do you enjoy working from home or would
you rather be in the office? How much money would it take for you to
give up your smartphone for a month?
Do you support any charities?
Do you have a dedicated office space at
home? How often do you work in PJs?
How would you spend your money if you If you could have the power of teleportation If you could see one movie again for the
won the lottery? right now, where would you go and why? first time, what would it be and why?

If you are to learn any new skill that is not If you could instantly become an expert in If you could start any business in the world,
related to work, what would it be? something, what would it be? what would you start?

If you could add anything to the office what If you could instantly learn any skill, what If you could turn the ocean into a liquid
would it be? would it be? other than water, which one would you
pick?

If you could choose one hobby that now If you could learn one new professional skill,
seems out of your reach either financially or what would it be? If you could write a book, what genre would
time-wise, what hobby would you take up you write it in?
and why?
If you could live any historical figureʼs life,
which one would you choose? If you had a boat, what would you name it?
If you could collect anything, what would it
be?
If you could live in any country, where would If you had a paid year off work, how would
you live? you spend it?
If you could do anything in the world as your
career, what would you do?
If you could live in any state, which state If you had lots of money, what unnecessary
would you pick? thing would you splurge on?
If you could eat one food for the rest of your
life, what would it be?
If you could magically become fluent in any If you had one opportunity to run a
language, what would it be? restaurant, what would you serve?
If you could eliminate one food so that no
one would eat it ever again, what would you
pick to destroy?
If you could only choose one vacation If you had to delete all but 3 apps from your
destination where would you pick and why? smartphone, which ones would you keep?
If you could eliminate one thing from your
daily routine, what would it be and why?
If you could only eat at one restaurant If you had to endorse a brand, which brand
forever, what restaurant would it be? would it be?
If you could give some advice to beginners
in your work area, what would it be?
If you could only listen to one song for the If you had to move to another country,
rest of your life, which song would you where would you move?
pick?
If you could go anywhere in the world right
now, where would it be?
If you had to teach a class on one thing,
If you could only wear one type of shoes for what would you teach?
the rest of your life, what type of shoes
If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
would you choose and why?
If your house was on fire and you could only
grab three things, what would they be?
If you could read one book over and over for
If you could have any unlimited supply of the rest of your life, what would it be?
one thing for the rest of your life, what
would you pick? In high school did you receive a superlative?
If you could get rid of one thing in the
world, what would it be?
Is a hot dog a sandwich? Tell us about your very first job. What band would you be embarrassed to
admit you listen to?

Is there a dish you cook exceptionally well? Tell us five things you always carry in your
backpack! What blog or website are you embarrassed
to admit you love?
Is there a habit you want to change?
Tell us the bravest thing you've done in your
life? What board game are you unbeatable at?
Mountain or beach, which one would you
prefer for vacation?
The Beach Boys or The Beatles? What celebrities share your birthday?

Pancakes or waffles?
Whatʼs the worst piece of advice youʼve What celebrity do most people say you look
ever been given? like?
Pick something from your pocket/purse and
tell us why that thing is inside there.
Train or plane? What college did you attend?

Popcorn or M&Ms?
What about showers? Do you prefer What commercial jingle gets stuck in your
morning or night? head all the time?
Pull out your phone; whatʼs your most used
emoji?
What afterschool activity did you quit as a What did you study in college?
kid, and why?
Show us the weirdest thing you have in the
room with you right now. What do you enjoy most about your job?
What are you doing next weekend?

Show us your cell phone wallpaper. Is there What do you never leave the house without
a story behind it? What are you drinking right now? If nothing, (canʼt be your phone, keys or wallet)?
what was the last thing you drank?

Show us your most-used emoji. What do you think is the greatest invention
What are you the biggest fan of? in your lifetime?

Show us your office space!

What are your top 3 favorite foods? What does your morning routine look like
when working from home?
Steve Urkel or Kimmy Gibler?
What are your special skills you would like
to apply at the workplace? What does your typical work from home
uniform look like?
Teleportation or flying?
What are your top 3 most hated foods?
What fashion trend would you bring back?
Tell us about something you use to believe
earlier in your career, but you now think
about it differently. What are your top three favorite phone
apps? What food could you not live without?

Tell us about the last time you got angry

with a co-worker. What was the cause? What food will you never eat?
What fruit or vegetable would you most What is your favorite dessert? What was the country you last visited
want to be? outside of United States?

What is your favorite item youʼve bought

What has been the best team building event this year? What was the first record you ever bought?
you have been to?

What is your favorite meal to cook and why? What was the hardest class you ever took?
What has been the greatest
accomplishment of your career?
What is your favorite scent? What was the last movie you attended?
What is one place you have always wanted
to visit?
What is your favorite television network? What was the last thing you ate?

What is something you do that you donʼt

like to do? What is your favorite way to unwind? What was your favorite childhood video
game you played?

What is something you would like to learn? What is your favorite work lunch?
What was your favorite class in college?

What is something you've done that nobdoy What is your favorite app?
would expect? What was your first job?

What is your favorite baked good?

What is the best concert you have ever What was your least favorite food as a
been to? child? Do you still hate it or do you love it
now?
What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
What is the best hotel or Airbnb you have
ever stayed at? What would be the most surprising
What is your favourite store? scientific discovery imaginable?

What is the best TV show of all time?

What is your preferred music genre? What would you like to be known for?

What is the farthest distance you have

driven? What is your role in the company? What would be the absolutely must-have-
thing in your dream house?

What is the greatest lesson you learned What is your Starbucks Order?
from your parents? What's the most difficult thing you've ever
done?
What part of elementary school do you wish
What is the last show you binge-watched? you could incorporate into your adult life?
(i.e. naptime) What's your best sport or fitness activity?

What is the most adventurous thing you

have done? What piece of clothing best describes you? What's your favorite music band a decade
ago?

What is your absolute dream job? What sort of physical exercise do you
enjoy? Whatʼs a weird fact you happen to know?
Whatʼs one skill you have that helps you be Whatʼs your number one tip for combating Who was your role model as a kid and why?
successful working remotely? distractions when working from home?

Would you rather be able to talk to animals

Whatʼs something that everyone else seems Whatʼs your real favorite book, and what or fluently speak all foreign languages?
to love—that you donʼt understand? book do you pretend is your favorite to
sound smart?
Would you rather be the funniest or
Whatʼs the best thing youʼve bought so far smartest person in the room?
this year? When you die, what do you want to be
remembered for?
Would you rather be without internet or
Whatʼs the hardest part about working from your phone for a whole week?
home? Where did you grow up?

Would you rather have an appetizer or

Whatʼs the longest flight youʼve ever taken? Where do you picture yourself five years dessert?
from now?

Whatʼs the most random thing in your Would you rather live in the mountains or on
purse/wallet? Where do you prefer to live - city or the beach?
countryside?

Whatʼs your favorite part of working from Would you rather live somewhere itʼs always
home? Where do you want to see yourself in 10 hot or somewhere itʼs always cold?
years?

Whatʼs your favorite place of all the places Would you rather medal in the Olympics or
youʼve travelled? Where were you born? win a Pulitzer Prize?

Whatʼs your favorite sports team? Where would you love to go for a relaxing Would you rather watch TV or read a book?
holiday?

Whatʼs your favorite type of sandwich? Would you rather work from home or work
Which of your skills do you feel are being in an office or do you like the idea of a
underutilized at work? combo of both?
Whatʼs your first memory as a child?
Who is the most famous person youʼve ever You can only eat one food again for the rest
met? of your life. What is it?

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