Question of the day for work.

How to run a question of the day

• Pick one place. A channel in the team chat called #question-of-the-day, or the first minute of the standup. The same place every day makes it a habit.
• Post it at the same time. First thing in the morning for the earliest time zone, so everyone sees it during their day.
• Keep answers short. A word, a sentence or an emoji. Easy questions get answers; hard ones get silence.
• Rotate who asks. Hand the question to a different person each week. People start bringing their own, and the questions get better.
• Answer first. Whoever posts the question answers it straight away. It shows the length and the tone, and nobody has to go first.

Fun questions

1. 1.What's the best thing you've eaten this week?
2. 2.What's a small thing that made you smile recently?
3. 3.Which app on your phone do you open the most?
4. 4.What's your go-to snack while working?
5. 5.What was your first job?
6. 6.What's a skill you'd love to learn this year?
7. 7.What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given?
8. 8.What's your favourite way to spend a Sunday?
9. 9.What's on your desk right now that you can't explain?
10. 10.What's a film you could watch again and again?
11. 11.If you could have any job for one day, what would it be?
12. 12.What's your hidden talent?
13. 13.What's the most useful thing you own?
14. 14.What's a hobby you picked up and dropped?
15. 15.Which song would be your entrance music?
16. 16.What's the last thing you bought that you love?
17. 17.What's your favourite season and why?
18. 18.What's a place you'd go back to tomorrow?
19. 19.Which fictional character would you want as a coworker?
20. 20.What's a smell that takes you straight back to childhood?

Funny questions

1. 21.What's the strangest thing you believed as a kid?
2. 22.What would your autobiography be called?
3. 23.What's the worst haircut you've ever had?
4. 24.If your pet could talk, what would it complain about?
5. 25.What's the most useless fact you know?
6. 26.What would you name a boat?
7. 27.What's your most irrational fear?
8. 28.If you were a vegetable, which one would you be?
9. 29.What's the weirdest food combination you secretly like?
10. 30.What would be your wrestling name?
11. 31.What's the silliest thing you've ever argued about?
12. 32.Which emoji do you use far too much?
13. 33.If your life had a laugh track, when would it play?
14. 34.What's the worst gift you've ever received?
15. 35.What's a word you always spell wrong?
16. 36.Which animal would be the rudest if it could talk?
17. 37.What's your most-used excuse for being late?
18. 38.What would your out-of-office message say if you could be honest?
19. 39.If you could only eat one food forever, what would it be?
20. 40.What's the most ridiculous thing you've Googled this month?

Would you rather

Two options, one pick: they work well as a poll. There are more in our would you rather questions.

1. 41.Would you rather have a four-day week or a month of extra holiday?
2. 42.Would you rather never join another meeting or never answer another email?
3. 43.Would you rather work from a beach or from a cabin in the woods?
4. 44.Would you rather be able to fly or be invisible?
5. 45.Would you rather have free coffee for life or free lunch for life?
6. 46.Would you rather speak every language or play every instrument?
7. 47.Would you rather start work at 6am or finish at 9pm?
8. 48.Would you rather have a personal chef or a personal driver?
9. 49.Would you rather read minds or see the future?
10. 50.Would you rather live without music or without films?

This or that

The quickest kind to answer. For a hundred more, see this or that questions.

1. 51.Coffee or tea?
2. 52.Early bird or night owl?
3. 53.Mac or Windows?
4. 54.Cats or dogs?
5. 55.Beach or mountains?
6. 56.Dark mode or light mode?
7. 57.Call or message?
8. 58.Books or podcasts?
9. 59.Sweet or salty?
10. 60.Summer or winter?

Work questions

1. 61.What's one thing you're working on that you're excited about?
2. 62.What's the best tool you started using this year?
3. 63.What's a work habit you're trying to build?
4. 64.What's the best meeting you've ever been in, and why?
5. 65.What's one thing that would make your week easier?
6. 66.Who taught you the most at work?
7. 67.What's a mistake that taught you something?
8. 68.What does a perfect workday look like for you?
9. 69.What's one thing you'd change about how we work?
10. 70.What's the most useful thing you learned from a teammate?
11. 71.When are you most focused during the day?
12. 72.What's your favourite way to celebrate a win?
13. 73.What's a skill you'd like to learn from someone on this team?
14. 74.What did you want to be when you grew up?
15. 75.What's one thing on your to-do list you keep putting off?
16. 76.What's the best piece of feedback you've received?
17. 77.What's a project you're proud of?
18. 78.What's your trick for getting through a slow afternoon?
19. 79.What's a small win from yesterday?
20. 80.If you could automate one task, which would it be?

Get to know you

1. 81.Where did you grow up?
2. 82.What's something about you that would surprise us?
3. 83.What's a tradition from your family or culture you love?
4. 84.How did you end up in your line of work?
5. 85.What's the best trip you've ever taken?
6. 86.What languages do you speak, even a little?
7. 87.What are you reading, watching or listening to right now?
8. 88.What's a cause you care about?
9. 89.What do you do to switch off after work?
10. 90.What's the best concert or event you've been to?
11. 91.Do you have any pets? Tell us about them.
12. 92.What's a dish you cook well?
13. 93.What's your favourite place in your city?
14. 94.What's the best thing about where you live?
15. 95.What's something you'd like to do before the year ends?

Remote work questions

1. 96.What's the view from where you're working today?
2. 97.What's one thing you'd never give back about working remotely?
3. 98.What's one thing you miss about an office?
4. 99.What's the best thing about your home setup?
5. 100.What do you do on your lunch break?
6. 101.Do you have a work-from-home uniform?
7. 102.Who's your favourite coworker who isn't on this team (pets count)?
8. 103.What time zone is your favourite to work with?
9. 104.How do you start your workday?
10. 105.What's your favourite background noise while working?

Seasonal questions (autumn and Halloween)

1. 106.What's your favourite autumn food or drink?
2. 107.What's the best Halloween costume you've ever worn?
3. 108.Which film always feels like autumn to you?
4. 109.Pumpkin spice: love it or skip it?
5. 110.What's the scariest film you've actually watched to the end?
6. 111.Which sweet do you hope to get, and which do you give away?
7. 112.What's a holiday tradition you look forward to every year?
8. 113.If you dressed up as a coworker's job, what would the costume be?
9. 114.Cosy night in or out with friends?
10. 115.What's on your list for the rest of the year?
11. 116.What's the best thing about this time of year where you live?
12. 117.What's a smell that means the seasons have changed?
13. 118.What's something you'd like to try before winter?
14. 119.Which spooky story from childhood do you still remember?
15. 120.What's your favourite way to spend a rainy day?