6 Fun Ways To Celebrate Your Coworker’s Birthday Virtually
If you work in a partly- or fully-remote work setting, there’s a good chance that you don’t have many opportunities to connect in a more casual setting with your whole team on a regular basis. While you may be able to conduct business as usual through a Zoom online meeting, you can’t all gather in the breakroom and share some cake because it’s a coworker’ birthday. However, just because you can’t all be together in the same room doesn’t mean you can’t throw an awesome birthday party for a coworker. Below, we share six fun ways to celebrate your coworker’s birthday virtually.
Here are 6 fun virtual birthday celebration ideas for work:
Create a Birthday Slack Channel
Order Your Coworker A Gift
Send Around An e-Card
Have A Virtual Party
Create A Video Of All Your Team Members
Buy A Cameo Of Their Favorite Celebrity
BONUS! Host a Virtual Event with Bar None Games
Create A Birthday Slack Channel
Slack helps to organize your conversations with different team members all in one space. Dedicate a slack channel to your coworkers’ birthdays and allow this chat to be used for shout outs, planning and fun. Toss in emojis, gifs or just a simple “Happy Birthday!” to get the convo started. Recognizing your coworkers on their birthday will make them feel special and help collaboration. These slack channels make it so much easier to connect with a group and keep the conversation light.
Order Your Coworker A Gift
Even though you won’t be seeing them in person, consider going the extra mile and ordering them a gift and having it sent to their house. Flowers, a cake, lunch or even a bottle of wine make great birthday gifts. Or you can go the electronic gift card route and e-mail it to them during the day. Everyone loves getting gifts on their birthday, and that doesn’t need to go out the window simply because you won’t be meeting in person. The best part is, they won’t be expecting it, so it’ll be a great surprise!
Send Around An e-Card
Have everyone sign a birthday card and send it to the guest of honor! Did you know that there are websites and programs that allow you to create and pass around a virtual e-card that can be “delivered” to the person whose birthday it is? Everyone can add their own message to the e-card and add a little personalized touch. You can use a program for free if you google search “Free e-Card from group,” or you can go with a paid option if you’re really interested in sending them an extra special e-Card.
Have A Virtual Party
Celebrate your co-worker with a virtual party! Host a virtual happy hour at the end of the day, or have everyone eat lunch at the same time over zoom. If there’s time, have everyone play a virtual game highlighting that special person’s birthday. A fun activity will elevate your typical zoom happy hour or team lunch and give you some time to actually celebrate. Most importantly, be sure to take a minute to sing happy birthday!
Can’t Get Everyone On The Same Zoom? Create A Video Of All Your Team Members
If it’s proving difficult to get everyone together at the same time, have each coworker take a moment to create a video of them wishing the guest of honor a happy birthday. Compile all the clips into one big video where everyone is involved. Time constraints and work meetings can make it difficult for everyone to get together at the same time, but anyone can take a minute out of their day to wish a coworker a happy birthday in a short video.
Buy A Cameo Of Their Favorite Celebrity
Even better than a video of your team members, send the guest of honor a personalized video of their favorite celebrity. Cameo is a website that allows you to connect with thousands of celebrities and pay a small fee to have them send anyone you want a special message. Have the guest of honor’s favorite television star wish them a happy birthday and go above and beyond by having their favorite celebrity make an appearance on their special day!
Host a Virtual Event with Bar None Games
If you want our help to throw the perfect birthday party, let us show you how our mini games, icebreakers and trivia packages can be the perfect compliment to your party. For more information, head on over to our booking page and fill out the short contact form. Let Bar None Games take your virtual birthday party to the next level!
