10 Slack apps to boost your employee morale and team bonding

If you are working Remote and missing out on the usual coffee or snack break and catching up with colleagues, this is the right app for you! Snack organises 1-v-1 meetings and suggests icebreakers. Premium Tier of Snack has A/B group pairing features and customisable topics for icebreakers. The next time you are missing out on the water cooler conversation, install a snack!

To beat the blues of remote work, Ricotta Trivia lets you host quizzes from a set of 5000+ questions and 10+ fun categories each. Ricotta helps teams to boost employee morale and engagement with weekly contests and daily trivia. Ricotta Trivia has custom icebreakers and games like this or that and 2 truths and 1 lie.

CatFacts is an immensely popular Slack integration, probably because there is a great intersection between cat lovers and Slack users. Random cat facts will be posted to your Slack after you type in the command /catfacts.

Disco essentially makes employees feel valued in the best way. By amplifying company culture, values, honoring employee achievements - all of which results in higher employee engagement and retention. Through Disco, teams can celebrate value-driven work and foster employee recognition. Measure and act on culture in real-time across key employee engagement driver and pulse surveys which can enhance company culture and optimize productivity.

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Update: Disco app is not available on Slack anymore.

Add Dailyfire to your slack channel and start sharing your favourite songs from soundcloud, spotify and youtube. Dailyfire also saves all your likes, and curates custom feeds based on your follows and likes which is automatically synced to your sporify account.

Teams can keep track of all the Table Tennis games played on Pinpon. It throws out suggestions as to who your next opponent should be, you can even record games and manage an overall leaderboard. The premium version of the bot allows you to access the web interface and has multi-league support. If you are an avid Pingpong fan, this is a must have!

Someone starts the lunch train when they are hungry, the others can opt to board it or get off the train! It's as simple as that. Lunchtrain enables teams to plan lunch without cluttering the channel or spamming. A quick slash command and you are all set for a delicious meal (hopefully!)

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Water cooler trivia is an asynchronous trivia contest app which has weekly contests based on categories which the teams can schedule and the results are displayed on a leaderboard. Teams usually use this as a team building tool when working remotely.

Moot lets you conduct meetings with 3D animated environments in a VR setting, which allows for increased interaction and engagement. Moot integration enables you to reach 10K+ people at once and can be accessed with any device including VR headsets. The cool thing is every Slack user gets his own personal VR office!