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Employee Appreciation Day 2022

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 04:16:49 GMT

Looking to show your employees how much they are appreciated this Employee Appreciation Day (Friday, March 04)? Book a Perth escape room team building exercise!

It's probably no surprise to you that we at Escape This take Employee Appreciation Day very seriously. Recognising and celebrating employees' great work - both our own team, but also all of our corporate clients' employees too - is at the core of our business!

Employee Appreciation Day falls on the first Friday of March, which in 2022 happens to be Friday, 04 March .

On this day, employers around the world make the extra effort to appreciate their employees’ effort and dedication. Over the past 20 years, an increasing number of companies have embraced this occasion to recognise the achievements and contributions of their employees with special events , corporate gifts (Perth escape room gift vouchers , anyone?), and even surprise parties or excursions.

You know we love Employee Appreciation Day, but why is it important to your organisation? Read on and we'll tell you!

Most work weeks are focused on business objectives, decisions from management, or customer issues. Employee Appreciation Day, on the other hand, is one day in 365 that is dedicated just to the teams and employees that keep your busy running every single day.

Even just a little bit of recognition can make a big impact on employee motivation. Research shows that feeling appreciated increases morale, improves engagement, and reduces turnover. In particular, employee recognition has been proven to boost oxytocin levels—that’s the chemical our bodies create when we bond socially! Additionally, a study undertaken by the hospitality industry found a strong correlation between employee engagement and guest satisfaction.

It sounds like a little employee appreciation goes a long way, doesn't it? Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson certainly thinks so; he famously said:

“ Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients. ”

How can you make your employees feel especially appreciated on this day? Escape Rooms of course!

What better way to get your team working together towards an end goal - all the while laughing and/or screaming as that oxytocin (and adrenaline!) pumps - than to have them ushered into a dark room, lock the door behind them and insist they work together to flee their... Escape Room!

Unlike traditional team building activities and corporate events (think your family-friendly waterpark picnic, a personality workshop, Friday afternoon drinks at the pub, or a "motivational speaker"... *yawn*), our centrally located Perth CBD escape rooms provide an adrenaline pumping hour of brain-teasing activity that your team members will actually be excited about! And being Perth’s best rated, most immersive escape rooms, Escape This really will have your team escape reality, if only for an hour or two!

So... why book your team an escape room this Employee Appreciation Day?

This fun activity promotes teamwork and cooperation
Flexes your team's lateral thinking muscles
Allows emerging leaders to rise to the top
Allows for healthy competition amongst teams
It’s a super fun way to get your team out of the office!

Looking for effective tool to boost your team's morale and productivity?

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 06:59:49 GMT

If you are striving to build a more productive and co-operative team, an escape room is the ultimate solution to your needs! Read on to learn more about the benefits of escape rooms as a team building exercise.

Employing escape rooms as for team building purposes is a relatively new trend, though it is an increasingly popular one with companies big and small due to the long-term benefits if it offers.

Part puzzle, part mystery, an escape room immerses team members in a themed room and forces them to work together to solve a series of complex problems within a limited time – 60 minutes at Escape This, 45 minutes at some other escape room operators.

During their hour of ‘game’ play, teamwork plays a vital role in players’ inevitable success or failure at escaping their “locked room” adventure. Consequently, memorable working relationship are established between workers. This teamwork when paired with the other benefits of escape rooms allows companies to test out the degree of co-operation of their employees while promoting other soft skills that contribute to productivity and problem-solving techniques of individuals.

At Team Escape, our escape rooms have proved to work wonders for corporate teams from the likes of BHP, Rio Tinto, Deloitte, Water Corp, and even the Western Australian Government. Some of these benefits include:

SETTING COMMON GOALS

Teams have a common goal in any escape room. Throughout their 60-minute escape experience there are a series of short tasks to complete which ultimately lead to escaping the room. It is just like a project with milestones and interim targets. Each team is motivated to cooperate under the pressure of time to reach a winning conclusion, and in doing so they analyse the risks ahead of them and cooperate with one other to finish tasks before the deadline.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Companies use escape rooms as a tool to analyse employees and their potential to deal with differing solutions in an enjoyable and non-confrontational environment. Our escape rooms encourage team members to engage in on-the-spot decision making and compare their thought processes with that of their colleagues. Dealing with non-work-related problems encourages individuals to be more adventurous with their solutions and willing to adopt techniques used by others. This can have a significant long-term benefit for both the individual employee and their working team.

ENGAGEMENT & LEARNING

Research shows that people who play games and solve problems are both more inquisitive and more open to new ideas; together, this results in more adaptable, more logically minded problem-solving techniques. Here at Team Escape, our rooms force your team to switch gears and to think through problems or puzzles like never before, to don their 'creative thinking caps’ and brainstorm solutions to the clues they are presented.

So... why team build in an escape room?

This fun activity promotes teamwork and cooperation
Flexes your team's lateral thinking muscles
Allows emerging leaders to rise to the top
Allows for healthy competition amongst teams
It’s a super fun way to get your team out of the office!

To learn more about escape rooms as a team building exercise, or to discuss hosting your next team building exercise with Escape This, contact our team now . To find out more about our fully immersive escape rooms - Perth's best rated! - visit Escape This .

Struggling to think of an appropriate corporate gift?

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 03:27:07 GMT

We have you covered. Our Escape This gift vouchers are a great way to say a job well done to your team or show your clients how much you value them. It's the perfect way to say thank you!

Take corporate gifting to the next level with our corporate escape room gift vouchers . Our customised e-gift or physical vouchers are perfect for every occasion and can be redeemed across any of our Adventure or Horror themed escape room experiences. This is a gift your employees, clients, customers, or partners will love to receive.

Escape This gift vouchers start at $40, are valid for 3 years and are delivered to your chosen email address within an hour, or opt to have a physical voucher sent to your recipient at home or work.

Reward your employees with an escape rooms gift voucher

An Escape This gift voucher is the perfect way to recognise your employees and show your appreciation for a job well done. By giving a team member the gift of an escape room experience (rather than ‘things’) you’re giving them the chance to choose an unforgettable adventure, something they’re sure to remember long after they’ve received it. Perfect for:

· Christmas or year-round rewards

· Great bonus alternative

· Motivate team members to reach higher targets

Put yourselves top-of-mind with business partners with an Escape This gift voucher

Business and corporate gift vouchers are a great way to build relationships and form connections. With an Escape This escape room gift voucher , you can:

· Build relationships and loyalty

· Keep your brand in mind

· Christmas or year-round gifts

· Celebrate a project or launch

Reward your clients or customers with a gift voucher

With Escape This escape room gift vouchers, you choose the value of your gift, and your clients or customers decide how to spend it. Will they choose to escape a… Haunted mansion? Dracula’s tomb? Bank vault? Pirate ship? We offer an escape room to excite every type of escaper!

· Retain valued clients

· Gain new customers

· Attractive prize in promotions

· Membership incentive

How to use corporate escape room gift vouchers at Escape This

If you’ve been lucky enough to receive one of our corporate vouchers, electronic or physical, you can use its monetary value towards any of our nine escape rooms! Here’s how:

Browse our Rooms to find the theme and session you want to play.
Add this to your cart and proceed to checkout.
At checkout, enter your unique gift voucher number.
Double check the details and confirm payment.
We’ll send you an email to confirm the booking details and welcome you at the centre soon!

Can I buy gift vouchers in bulk?

Absolutely! Buying e-gift vouchers in bulk is simple at Escape This, just change the number in the quantity field to suit your particular needs.

Customised corporate cards

Can’t find the gift voucher you’re looking for? Want a customised corporate voucher? We can absolutely do that! Get in touch with the Escape This team on (08) 6118 0286 for a chat about your corporate gifting options.

Wracking your brain for end-of-year event ideas? Here we are!

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 06:44:39 GMT

Book an escape this festive season!

The festive season is very nearly upon us, and if our end-of-year event bookings are any indication, it’s going to be a crazy busy one at Escape This!

The holidays are all about spending time with the people closest to you – whether that’s family, friends, your sports team, or colleagues – and that usually means parties or functions! While large gatherings and mass events might still be a bit a risky post-COVID, it is more important than ever to engage in activities that keep us connected and engaged… and what better activity to do that than an escape room?!

Let’s take a look at some of the reasons that escape rooms are the perfect end-of-year get-together activity.

Escape rooms are FUN for all

Unlike traditional team building activities and corporate events (think your family-friendly Adventure World picnic, a personality workshop, Friday afternoon drinks at The Royal, or a "motivational speaker"... *yawn*), escape rooms provide an adrenaline pumping hour of brain-teasing activity that your team members will actually be excited about!

Escape the 9 to 5 rut

Perth’s best rated, most immersive escape rooms really will have you escape reality! For the one hour that you are locked in your room, nothing else matters. You’ve become part of a story and your sole objective is to put on your detective hat and escape the room; all other distractions in your life will have to wait. Forget that excel spreadsheet that’s been driving you crazy, or that tomorrow is bin day – you have a mission to complete! Because of this, escape rooms are a great way to refresh and reset your mind while having a great time.

Escape Rooms are a Great Bonding Experience

Nowadays, it’s increasingly difficult to fully engage with your friends, family and colleagues. Working from home, social distancing, and tech dependency have all put a screen – electronic or Perspex – between us.

Escape rooms provide the perfect environment to undo that... to fully engage with others. Upon walking into your escape room, you and your team are fully immersed in your surroundings. To achieve your objective and escape the room, you must communicate with the people in your group to find clues and solve puzzles.

What better way to get your team working together towards an end goal - all while fine-tuning their soft skills and creative thinking processes - than to have them ushered into a dark room, lock the door behind them and insist they work together to flee their... Escape Room!

All Escape This Bookings Are Private

At Escape This, all escape room games are private. It’s your room, your team, your challenge, your hour. This isn’t a COVID measure, it’s just our policy here at Escape This.

The only strangers you’re going to meet in our rooms are Dracula or our pirate captain, Calico Jack, if you’re unlucky in your escape! Otherwise, your bookings is entirely your own. And because of it, your experience is more intimate, more immersive. No need to break the ice with strangers like at other escape room centres; you and your team are good to jump into the action the second we lock the door behind you.

Unlike bowling, golfing, or even a pub Christmas party, when you book an Escape This escape room for your end-of-year event, we GUARANTEE you will be the only people in the room!

Extend your Experience with our Bar & Restaurant Partners

We know you’ll want to extend the fun of your end-of-year escape room fun, so this year we’ve partnered with some brilliant local bars and restaurants to secure you some AWESOME deals on food & beverage before or after your escape!

From free ENTRY to 10% off meals, we’ve got a range of exciting offers at venues literally on our block in Northbridge – think vibey Convenients bar, flavoursome Louder Louder, and bustling Northbridge Brewing Company.

Read all about our group food & beverage offers here.

So, what are you waiting for?! Book your end-of-year Escape This escape room NOW before we’re fully booked out!

Escape Rooms: the newest trend in recruitment

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 06:45:02 GMT

Recruiters are increasingly turning to Escape Rooms...

We all know the standard interview process: your candidate arrives, you seat them across from you at your desk, you ask them about their professional strengths, their past career challenges, and the motivating factors behind their interest in your company; and you usually get the same well-rehearsed responses which you have to decipher to find the right candidate for your team. But did you know that as many as 46% of new hires will fail within the first 18 months?

Research shows that a key reason for this failure is that conventional job interview techniques just don’t tell you enough about your candidates and their soft skillset.

Obviously then, conventional hiring techniques just don’t cut it in the contemporary workplace setting , and that’s why recruiters are increasingly turning to ‘outside the box’ methods of getting to better know candidates. And one of these increasing popular tools being applied to the recruitment process is escape rooms.

What better way to really get to know your candidates than to have them ushered into a dark room, lock the door behind them and insist they work together to flee their – Escape Room! Because as far as your recruitment process is concerned, how the candidates play the game will tell you if they are team players, appreciate different perspectives, delegate authority and communicate well.

So how do escape rooms work in a recruitment setting? At Escape This, we invite talent assessors into the escape room with their candidates to observe the game and take notes from a distance, typically concluding the activity with asking candidates questions about their experience.

Escape rooms by their very nature force candidates to apply their soft skills in a team setting to creatively solve the challenges presented to them if they’re to escape. And according research conducted by LinkedIn, 92% of talent professionals say soft skills matter as much as or more than hard skills when they hire , and 80% say they're increasingly important to company success.

The soft skills Escape This' escape rooms are designed to test include:

Time management
Logical reasoning
Problem solving
Communication & confidence
Critical thinking
Leadership & delegation
Strategy & Strategic thinking
Teamwork

So, far beyond just the rehearsed responses to questions about how a candidate works in a team environment, applies critical thinking, or demonstrates leadership; our escape rooms allow Perth recruiters to assess these, and many more skills, in practice in a time sensitive environment . Think now how useful that could be in your recruitment process?!

To discuss how Escape This and our escape rooms might be useful to your recruitment process, contact us today!

Why Escape Rooms for teambuilding?

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 06:36:19 GMT

Perth's most exciting team building activity awaits...

Unlike traditional team building activities and corporate events (think your family-friendly Adventure World picnic, a personality workshop, Friday afternoon drinks at The Royal, or a "motivational speaker"... * yawn *), escape rooms provide an adrenaline pumping hour of brain-teasing activity that your team members will actually be excited about!

Best of all, however, escape rooms promote a whole range of soft skills that can be directly applied in the workplace come Monday morning! For Perth-based organisations of four to to 400+ staff, our escape room sessions are designed to bring out the very best in your team.

But how does an escape room setting work for team building? It's quite simple really.

Choose a location , our site or yours. Book your team building event for 4 to 400+ staff at our Northbridge escape centre, or we can come to you with The President's Briefcase and transform your space (warehouse, boardroom, office or retail space) into an escape room experience.

We'll lock away your team . In teams of between 2 and 10 people depending on the chosen escapes, we'll provide your team an introduction to the escape room process before we close the door on them and turn the key... and being able to run multiple sessions simultaneously, we can have up to 100 of your staff locked away per hour.

They work as a team to escape . As soon as the countdown begins, your team will need to employ their teamwork, problem solving, time management and communication skills to find the clues & solve the puzzles that will allow their escape.

Escape rooms by their very nature force the escapers to apply their soft skills in a team setting to creatively solve the challenges presented to them if they’re to escape. But what are those soft skills, and how could they be relevant to your organisation?

Time Management. Our escape rooms excel at putting your team under time pressure. This is when personalities are the most visible, and most vulnerable. You will witness time management skills either emerge or evaporate. You will learn more about your team in the last 5 minutes of our escape rooms than you could in any conventional 5-hour team building exercise.

Teamwork . Solving the challenges of an escape room requires impeccable teamwork. Good or bad, you’ll find out which of your colleagues are lone wolves, and which are part of the pack. Can they remain calm under pressure, or will they show signs of stress? Will they realise everyone has different strengths that add to the overall success of the team?

Problem Solving & Critical Thinking. Overcoming complex hurdles with well honed problem solving skills is a key challenge in the workplace, just as it is an escape room! Our rooms force your team to switch gears and to think through problems or puzzles like never before, to don their 'creative thinking caps’ and brainstorm solutions to the clues they are presented.

Communication. Teams play out a fully immersive themed scenario in which they must communicate over a variety of distractions: the chaos of the unknown, and a time crunch. “Active communication” will test the boundaries of each player's personality. You’ll learn which of your team are wall flowers, and which jump in and exhibit winning team skills to get the job done within the time limit.

Leadership & Delegation. Our escape rooms will draw out your colleagues' natural abilities to plan, delegate, motivate and execute. Who will take the lead to direct the group or assign tasks? Watch as teammates automatically fall into their natural roles and perform according to their natural strengths to beat the clock and win the day!

Logical Reasoning. Not everyone can logic their way through a problem – much less in a busy, distracting group environment. Regardless of the difficulty of the escape room, our puzzles are a particularly good way to hone logical-reasoning skills. Best of all, your team will be forced to adopt a collaborative approach to structural thinking!

So... why team build in an escape room?

This fun activity promotes teamwork and cooperation
Flexes your team's lateral thinking muscles
Allows emerging leaders to rise to the top
Allows for healthy competition amongst teams
It’s a super fun way to get your team out of the office!

To learn more about escape rooms as a team building exercise, or to discuss hosting your next team building exercise with Escape This, contact our team now . To find out more about our fully immersive escape rooms - Perth's best rated! - visit Escape This .