20 questions

Work & meetings

Icebreaker questions for work should take thirty seconds and never feel like an interview. These 20 ask about desk snacks, first jobs, favorite tools and small wins — light enough for a Monday stand-up, real enough that the team learns something.

All the questions

1. What's the best piece of advice you've had at work?
2. What was your very first job?
3. What app or tool could you not do your job without?
4. What's a small win you had this week?
5. What's your go-to snack for a long afternoon?
6. If you could instantly master one work skill, what would it be?
7. What's the most useful thing you learned in the last month?
8. Are you a morning-meeting person or an afternoon-meeting person?
9. What's something on your desk that has a story?
10. What did you want to be when you were ten?
11. What's a podcast, book or video you'd recommend to the team?
12. What's one thing that always makes a workday better?
13. If our team had a mascot, what would it be?
14. What's a hobby you have that might surprise your coworkers?
15. What's the best team lunch you've ever had?
16. Which song would you play to get through a big deadline?
17. What's a word or phrase you use way too much at work?
18. What's the strangest job you've ever heard of?
19. Where would you work for a week if you could work from anywhere?
20. What's something you're looking forward to this month?