This or That for Work

Play This or That for work, free

Every other result for this phrase is a list of a hundred questions and a suggestion that you build a slide deck. This page deals them instead. Open it, press start, and you are running the icebreaker — tap a side, the next card appears, and ten questions later you are done. On a laptop the left and right arrow keys play the whole round, so you can run it while screen-sharing without touching the mouse.

Why work icebreakers usually fail

Because they ask people to reveal something. “Tell us a fun fact about yourself” asks the quietest person in the room to perform, on the spot, in front of their manager. This or That asks nothing of the sort. It asks about habits everyone already has an opinion about and nobody minds admitting — and because the answer is one tap, the pace never drops.

The work questions

Nothing about politics, money, relationships or anyone’s body. Nothing that could land badly in a mixed-seniority room.

• Work from homeor work from the office?
• Camera onor camera off?
• Inbox at zeroor four thousand unread?
• Emailor a quick call?
• Headphones onor headphones off?
• Morning meetingor afternoon meeting?
• Whiteboardor spreadsheet?
• Agenda circulated in advanceor let us see where it goes?

How to run it

1. Press start. The work pack is already loaded on this page.
2. Set the round length to 10 for the top of a meeting, or 30 for an offsite.
3. Remote: share your screen and have everyone put A or B in the chat. You get a visible split in seconds with no poll to configure.
4. In the room: switch to pass-and-play in Options, put everyone’s name in, and pass one phone round. The results screen shows how the team divided on each question, which two people agreed most, and which question caused the most trouble.
5. Keep it moving. If someone starts explaining their answer, that is the cue to go to the next card — the explaining is what makes icebreakers drag.

Team building, onboarding and retros

It fits anywhere you have five minutes and a room that has not warmed up. New starter on the call? Ten questions gives them something to say that is not their job title. Retro that has gone flat? Run a round before the first column. Offsite? Pass-and-play with the whole group and read the agreement stats out — the two people with the most similar answers are never the two everyone expects.

This or That or Would You Rather at work?

Would You Rather asks people to imagine something and then justify it, which is exactly where a work icebreaker stalls. This or That asks about preferences people already have, so nobody has to perform and the pace holds. For a quiet team with five minutes, This or That is the more reliable of the two.

More This or That

• All This or That QuestionsThe complete list, sorted by category, free to use.
• This or That for KidsDinosaurs, superheroes and cake against ice cream.
• This or That GameThe full game — over 250 questions across every category.
• Halloween This or ThatTrick or treat, carve or paint, vampire or werewolf.
• Christmas This or ThatReal tree or artificial, Eve or morning, turkey or ham.

A free This or That icebreaker for work. No account, no app store detour — just open it and play.