Stress Relief / Team Building Facilitator

One of the coolest things about working at Imagekind is that everyday between 3pm - 7pm, you will from time to time hear this "tick, tack, tick" sound coming from near by our front door at the office. This is not a clock ticking like you might have guessed but rather the sound of pairs of our employees taking short 10 min breaks to get their ping pong game on. =)



Some times startups get so entrenched into their work because of limited resources, they forget that proper team building and stress relief also needs to take place to keep a healthy company culture. It also puts an interesting mix into a work day which allows employees to look forward to not only taking down their work related challenges each day but also an intense 21 point ping pong madness.

You might wonder, "What about productivity?" Let's just say, with or without ping pong, people should always step away from their monitor for 10-15min which will one, give their eyes a break that they need, and 2, give a short down time for the employees to rejuvenate their mind so they can attack their challenges again when they come back to their desks. With that said, what a better use of time than to play some ping pong and loosen up your entire body and hence, getting some real rejuvenating rest?

For you readers out there, what do you do for stress relief at work? What's your facilitator? I would love to hear more ideas.