Rediscovering the pleasure of the office: what if it all started with a game?
Alexis Filia
5 min read
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05/08/25
“This game brightens my workday!” — A collaborator at the end of a FeelGoodFellows experience
This sentence, received enthusiastically at the end of one of our experiences, perfectly summarizes what drives us at FeelGoodFellows: creating meaningful moments, simple yet sincere interactions, and most importantly, inspiring collaborators to reconnect with their work environment... and their colleagues.
Remote Work: A Valuable Advancement... But Double-Edged
Let's not be mistaken: remote work has positively changed the game for thousands of employees. More flexibility, less commuting, a better work-life balance in many cases.
But for some organizations, another reality is gradually settling in:
Teams that no longer really know each other,
Less fluid communication,
A loss of commitment to company culture,
And a gradual decline in collective motivation.
The Social Connection, Once Naturally Woven Over Coffee or in the Hallway, Becomes a Subject to Manage, to Rebuild.
This leads some companies to face a new challenge: how to bring employees back to the office without it being perceived as a constraint? How to rekindle the desire to come in, not to "clock in", but to share moments, collaborate more effectively, and simply reclaim the pleasure of being together?
FeelGoodFellows: (Re)creating Connections Through Play
At FeelGoodFellows, we believe that cohesion cannot be mandated. It is built, step by step, within a safe, supportive, and — above all — playful environment.
Our experiences are designed as collective quests that combine challenges, actions, human interactions, and creativity. They require no materials, no specific location: they integrate into daily life, in offices, open spaces, coworking areas... or even in a hybrid format.
For example, in one of our experiences, collaborators had to leave a kind post-it on a colleague's desk to thank them, encourage them, or simply make them smile. The result: dozens of kind notes, laughter, unexpected conversations, and a new collective energy established within the team.
And this is just one example among many.
The "Back to Office Journey": A Gentle and Progressive Strategy
To address the specific challenges of companies that want to encourage a return to the office without rigidity, we have designed a three-phase journey, consisting of 3 experiences over several weeks:
1. Create a First Collective Dynamic Remotely or in Hybrid Mode
Before bringing people back, we rebuild connections where people are. A first FeelGoodFellows experience in remote or hybrid format allows for re-engaging teams, re-launching exchanges, and stimulating the desire to collaborate, without disrupting existing habits. We create connections, reactivate sometimes dormant dynamics: we plant the seed.
2. Awareness of the Strengths and Limits of Remote Work
In the second phase, the experience aims to bring forth collective reflection: how can we better leverage remote work, without losing what enriches human collaboration?
Some tasks require concentration, calm, isolation: they are often more effective remotely. But others — creativity, idea sharing, human management, commitment to company culture — gain strength when experienced in person.
Through playful missions and moments of exchange, collaborators:
become aware of this complementarity,
rediscover the value of physical interactions,
and reflect on their role in a balanced organization, where trust, engagement, and relational fluidity are essential.
This is also an opportunity for the company to better understand the expectations and barriers of its teams: why do some prefer remote work? What are the obstacles to returning to the office? What actions could address them?
We do not force, we illuminate. We do not seek a single truth, but a lasting common ground, co-constructed.
3. Transforming the Office into a Place as Welcoming as Home
Finally, a last experience reinforces and anchors the dynamic in daily life. Collaborators are invited to imagine and implement concrete actions to:
improve their work environment,
make spaces more vibrant, comfortable, and inspiring,
and co-construct a place where it feels good to return.
The objective: to make the office an enjoyable as well as productive space, where one wants to come — not out of obligation, but because one feels good, recognized, and connected to others.
At the end of the journey, returning to the office is no longer a problem to manage. It has become a natural, balanced, and profoundly human choice.
A Pragmatic, Human Approach That is 100% Actionable
The "Back to Office Journey" is not a grand transformation plan. It is a series of simple, engaging, and high-impact experiences, that allow teams to:
Recreate human connections,
Feel better together,
And give meaning to their on-site presence.
No theory, no top-down speeches. Just concrete actions, shared moments, and a renewed desire to work as a team.
In Conclusion: What If the Solution Lies in Motivation, Not Enforcement?
Companies that will succeed in reinventing their collective dynamics are those that know how to inspire rather than impose.
And this sometimes starts with a simple phrase left on a post-it, or a shared smile around a FeelGoodFellows challenge.
Would you like to know more about our Back to Office Journey? 👉 Let’s talk about it together.
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