Go-karting, axe throwing, escape rooms and zombie shooting are taking corporate team-building exercises to the next level, and they are more popular than ever.
It’s the middle of a workday but employees of a Melbourne food hall’s office have put away their laptops, switched off their phones and left the building.
Kim and his workmates wore headsets and ran around the North Melbourne warehouse of virtual reality games centre Zero Latency VR, shooting zombies, or each other for an hour. It was an exercise in corporate team building, which is flourishing following the COVID-19 pandemic. He said most of his employees were in their 20s and this was “a different experience out of the office” and fostered bonding with each other.
Winston Smith, a team leader at Auscarts Racing, an indoor go-karting track in Port Melbourne, said the venue is hosting up to 80 corporate teams a week, compared to about 50 before the pandemic. The numbers of corporate customers per year across Australia had more than doubled since before the pandemic to 80,000 and was expected to rise further.“You can have the CEO there and also someone who’s on day one as an intern,” Hocking says. “It’s probably unlikely both of them are expert axe throwers, so it levels the playing field and creates this atmosphere where everyone can have a lot of fun,” he says.
Themes of rooms include a 1920s Prohibition era bar where team members must try to catch the killer of their detective friend and a top secret government facility where you gather evidence and eliminate suspects to find out which scientist among you is a spy.Escape Hunt clients have included lawyers, police, firefighters and underground rail signals workers – the latter, says Spooner, “actually broke one of our records, for escaping a room in 22 minutes”.
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