Boutique Party Hire provides arcade machines, racing games, reaction challenges, competitive games and social entertainment for staff away days, company events and team activities throughout London.
Whether you’re organising an informal day away from the office, combining meetings with entertainment or creating a full staff competition, our games can be adapted around your event.
Entertainment can work for small departments through to large company-wide staff days with hundreds of employees.
Browse our full Arcade & Amusement Game Hire range to see the wider selection available.
A staff away day can give employees an opportunity to spend time together outside their normal working environment.
Businesses organise staff days for many different reasons, including:
Interactive games can provide the entertainment around the more formal parts of the day.
Different types of games can be combined to create a varied entertainment experience.
Options can include:
Employees can play casually or participate in organised competitions.
Turn part of your venue into a temporary arcade.
A dedicated gaming area can remain open throughout the event, allowing employees to play between other activities.
For competitive racing, Mario Kart DX Twin can create head-to-head competition between colleagues.
Add recognisable arcade attractions such as World’s Largest Pac-Man alongside reaction and sports games to build a larger arcade experience.
Create a competition that runs throughout your staff day.
Employees can be divided into teams before rotating between different challenges.
Find the fastest drivers.
Test employees using Batak Lite.
Create a highest-score competition.
Run a retro arcade leaderboard.
Finish with pool or table football.
Points can be awarded for each activity before an overall winning team is announced.
Reaction games are particularly useful for company competitions because individual attempts can be completed quickly.
Create a reaction zone featuring games such as:
Employees can complete each challenge and combine their scores.
This can form one part of a much larger team tournament.
Racing can create direct competition between employees.
Run qualifying rounds throughout the afternoon before bringing the fastest racers together for a final.
Possible formats include:
For larger events, racing can be one station within a multi-game competition.
Individual departments can organise their own away days.
Suitable teams include:
Games can provide entertainment after departmental meetings, planning sessions and workshops.
Sales teams often enjoy highly competitive entertainment.
A sales-team event could include:
Racing Competition
Reaction Challenge
Basketball Shootout
Arcade High Score
Pool Tournament
Each activity can award points towards an overall leaderboard.
Marketing teams can use interactive entertainment for:
Arcade and competitive games provide an informal activity after meetings or workshops.
Not every employee will want to participate in highly competitive challenges.
Social games provide a more relaxed alternative.
Suitable options include Commercial Pool Table Hire and Table Football Hire.
These can be positioned around breakout, food or drinks areas.
Employees can play while continuing to socialise with colleagues.
If your staff away day includes company meetings, the games can start once the formal programme finishes.
For example:
09:00 — Staff Arrival
10:00 — Company Update
11:00 — Team Meetings
13:00 — Lunch
14:00 — Workshops
15:30 — Games Open
17:00 — Competition Finals
17:30 — Drinks & Social
This creates a clear transition from work into entertainment.
Staff planning days often involve long periods of presentations and meetings.
Adding interactive entertainment afterwards can give employees something different to look forward to.
Games can follow sessions covering:
Once the formal programme finishes, the event can transition into a social environment.
Games can also provide entertainment following suitable training events.
After several hours of workshops or presentations, employees can move into an arcade or gaming area.
This can work particularly well when staff have travelled from several locations to attend the same event.
Rather than everyone leaving immediately after training, the business can create an informal social afterwards.
Companies bringing together groups of new employees can incorporate games into induction and welcome events.
Suitable occasions include:
Games provide a natural activity around which new colleagues can interact.
Remote teams may only meet face-to-face several times each year.
When employees travel into London for a staff event, adding entertainment can make more of the occasion.
Games can follow:
Employees then have time to socialise with colleagues they usually only see online.
Hybrid businesses may bring everyone into the office or another venue for occasional company-wide events.
Interactive entertainment can provide the social part of these days.
Games can be used after presentations, internal conferences or team meetings.
This can help turn a standard office day into a larger staff experience.
Small teams don’t need large quantities of equipment.
A compact setup might include:
Arcade Game + Reaction Challenge + Social Game
This provides several different activities while remaining suitable for smaller venues.
For hundreds of employees, multiple entertainment zones can be created.
Retro and modern arcade games.
Head-to-head competitions.
Fast competitive challenges.
Basketball and other sports games.
Pool and table football.
Games several colleagues can enjoy together.
This increases the number of employees able to participate simultaneously.
Technology companies can use interactive games for:
Arcade entertainment can fit naturally into informal technology-company events.
Banks, fintech businesses, insurers and professional-services companies can incorporate interactive entertainment into staff away days.
Suitable London locations include:
Games can follow meetings, training sessions, presentations or strategy workshops.
Marketing, advertising, PR, media and creative agencies can use games for:
Competitive entertainment can provide a more informal conclusion to the event.
Planning a staff away day in Canary Wharf?
Interactive games can be supplied to suitable offices and corporate venues throughout the area.
For larger arcade equipment inside high-rise buildings, useful access information includes lift dimensions, loading arrangements and security requirements.
Boutique Party Hire can provide suitable staff away-day entertainment throughout:
Packages can be adapted around both smaller teams and larger employee events.
Businesses around London Bridge can hire arcade and interactive games for suitable staff away days.
Entertainment can be provided for offices, hotels and other suitable event venues.
Shoreditch and East London contain many technology businesses, agencies and creative companies.
Interactive games can provide entertainment for staff away days, culture events, planning days and team socials.
A compact selection of arcade, reaction and social games.
Multiple arcade machines creating a temporary gaming area.
Racing, reaction and sports challenges.
Multiple games creating a team competition.
Relaxed multiplayer and social games.
Multiple arcade, racing, reaction, sports and social entertainment zones.
Packages can be adapted around your number of employees, London venue, event schedule and available space.
Boutique Party Hire can provide suitable staff away-day game hire throughout:
Arcade machines, racing games, reaction challenges, sports games, pool, table football and multiplayer games can all form part of suitable staff events.
Yes. Several games can be combined into a scored individual, team or department tournament.
Yes. Entertainment can begin after presentations, workshops, training or other formal sessions.
Yes. Smaller packages can be created for individual teams and departments.
Yes. Larger events can use multiple gaming zones to increase capacity.
Yes, subject to suitable space, access and power.
Yes. Entertainment can be provided at suitable London corporate venues subject to access requirements.
Yes. Interactive entertainment can work well when remote or hybrid employees come together for an in-person event.
Yes. Suitable staff away days can be covered throughout Canary Wharf and London.
Yes. We can provide suitable staff away-day game hire throughout Central and Greater London.
Planning a staff away day, team day, company planning event, training day or employee social in London?
Boutique Party Hire can provide everything from a few interactive games to a complete temporary arcade and company tournament.
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