The best company Christmas party ideas give people something to do together. Boeing took that idea to the extreme. On December 15, 1979, the company filled Seattle’s Kingdome for its employee Christmas party. The show featured performers marching as toy soldiers, workers in clown costumes, and a 15-foot teddy bear. Santa arrived on a sleigh lowered from the ceiling. A […]
The best Giving Tuesday events usually start with one person who decides to give instead of buy. In 2011, that person was a Chicago ticketing employee named Carlo Garcia. He had just spent a year giving to a different charity every single day. To pay for it, he quit buying coffee at Starbucks and drank the free stuff at work.
Thanksgiving activities for work can take a lesson from a phone line that opened in 1981. That year, Butterball put six home economists on the phones to answer turkey questions. According to MIT Sloan, they handled about 11,000 questions in that first season. The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line still runs every November. It now has more than 50 experts, and they
World Kindness Day activities trace back to a graduation speech in Tokyo. In March 1963, University of Tokyo president Seiji Kaya urged graduates to practice “small kindness” boldly. He hoped those small acts would grow into a wave across Japanese society. Newspapers and TV covered the speech, and Japan’s Small Kindness Movement grew from it. The movement gave awards for
A question of the day for work sounds like a small thing. However, research suggests questions change how people feel about each other. In 2017, Harvard researchers paired up strangers for 15-minute online chats. One person in each pair was told to ask at least nine questions. The other was told to ask no more than four, and neither knew
The best office Halloween ideas give people something fun to do together. A small Minnesota town figured that out more than a century ago. In 1920, Halloween mischief by local kids worried the people of Anoka. Instead of cracking down, businessman George Green and a group of civic leaders planned a celebration. Hundreds of children marched down Main Street with
