Planning a staff appreciation event and looking for game hire in London?
Boutique Party Hire provides arcade machines, racing games, reaction challenges, sports games and interactive entertainment for businesses organising staff appreciation days, employee rewards and company celebrations throughout London.
Whether you want to surprise employees with a few games inside the office or create a complete temporary arcade for a major company event, entertainment can be adapted around your workplace, number of employees and available space.
Browse our full Arcade & Amusement Game Hire range to explore the wider selection available.
Recognising employees doesn’t always need to involve a formal awards ceremony.
Interactive entertainment can create a relaxed staff event where employees can step away from their normal work and enjoy something different.
Games can be hired for:
The entertainment can operate for several hours or form part of a larger company event.
Create an entertainment area featuring a mixture of:
Employees can choose what they want to play rather than everyone having to participate in the same activity.
Turn part of your office or venue into a temporary arcade.
For competitive racing, Mario Kart DX Twin can create head-to-head competition between colleagues.
Add World’s Largest Pac-Man for a recognisable retro attraction.
Reaction, sports and social games can then be positioned around the arcade area to create a larger employee experience.
Create a racing competition between employees.
Staff can compete throughout the event before the fastest racers progress into a final.
You could run:
Qualifying
Quarter-Finals
Semi-Finals
Grand Final
For larger companies, different departments can nominate their fastest drivers.
Reaction games provide fast competitive challenges that employees can attempt throughout the event.
Create a reaction area featuring:
Scores can be recorded throughout the day to create an employee leaderboard.
Create a staff basketball competition as part of your event.
Employees can compete individually or represent their teams.
For larger events, basketball can become one challenge within a wider competition involving racing, reaction and arcade games.
An arcade high-score competition can run throughout the entire event.
Employees can attempt the game whenever they have time.
Display the current high score and encourage colleagues to try to beat it.
The winner can then be announced towards the end of the event.
Not everyone wants highly competitive entertainment.
Social games provide a more relaxed alternative.
Options include:
These can work particularly well around food, drinks and breakout areas.
For events continuing into the evening, music-based games can create a more party-focused atmosphere.
Guitar Hero Arcade can be combined with racing, retro arcade and multiplayer entertainment.
This can work particularly well for staff parties involving music, drinks and food.
Sometimes the purpose of the event is simply to say thank you.
Businesses can organise entertainment after:
Instead of simply sending an email or providing lunch, interactive games can create a larger employee event.
Games can also form part of an employee reward event.
You might reward:
The event can be informal or include organised competitions and prizes.
Employee recognition events can combine formal awards with interactive entertainment.
For example:
15:00 — Games Open
16:00 — Food & Drinks
17:00 — Employee Awards
17:30 — Gaming Competition
19:00 — Finals
19:30 — Staff Social
This gives the event both a recognition and entertainment element.
You don’t necessarily need to hire an external venue.
Subject to access and space, games can be installed inside suitable London offices.
Potential areas include:
This can make organising the event easier for employees already working from the office.
Another option is to install games before employees arrive.
Staff can walk into the office to discover a temporary arcade setup.
This could include:
Racing Games
Retro Arcade Machines
Reaction Challenges
Basketball
Pool
Table Football
This can create an immediate focal point for a staff appreciation day.
Friday afternoons can work particularly well for employee reward events.
Games can open towards the end of the working day before the event transitions into drinks and food.
For example:
15:00 — Games Open
16:00 — Staff Competition
17:00 — Food & Drinks
18:00 — Finals
18:30 — Winners Announced
Entertainment can continue into the evening.
Hybrid businesses may have limited opportunities to bring everyone together.
A company-wide office day can therefore double as a staff appreciation event.
Meetings and company updates can take place earlier in the day before employees move into an entertainment area.
Games can provide a more informal conclusion to the event.
Remote businesses may bring employees into London for annual or quarterly events.
Interactive entertainment can be added after:
This can provide an additional reward for employees who have travelled to attend.
Small companies can create an effective staff event without hiring large quantities of equipment.
A compact package could combine:
One Arcade Game
One Racing or Reaction Challenge
One Social Game
This gives employees several entertainment options while keeping the setup manageable.
For larger workforces, create several entertainment zones.
Retro and modern arcade machines.
Head-to-head competition.
Fast employee challenges.
Basketball and sports games.
Pool and table football.
Games several employees can enjoy simultaneously.
This increases capacity for larger staff events.
Individual departments can also organise their own appreciation events.
Suitable teams include:
Entertainment packages can be adapted around smaller department numbers.
Sales teams often have clear targets and milestones.
Interactive games can be used to celebrate:
Competitive entertainment can fit naturally with sales-team reward events.
Technology businesses can use arcade entertainment for:
Arcade entertainment can fit naturally into modern technology workplaces.
Banks, fintech companies, insurers and professional-services businesses can use interactive games for employee reward events.
Popular London locations include:
Games can be installed inside suitable workplaces or provided at external venues.
Marketing, advertising, PR, media and creative agencies can use games to celebrate:
Interactive entertainment can turn a simple celebration into a larger staff event.
Planning a staff appreciation event in Canary Wharf?
Arcade and interactive games can be supplied to suitable offices and corporate venues throughout the area.
For high-rise buildings, useful information includes:
This helps determine which equipment is suitable.
Boutique Party Hire can provide suitable employee entertainment throughout:
Entertainment can range from a few games for a team reward to a complete company-wide arcade.
Businesses around London Bridge can hire arcade and interactive games for suitable employee reward events, staff celebrations and company socials.
Games can be supplied to suitable offices, hotels and corporate venues.
Technology businesses, agencies, start-ups and creative companies around Shoreditch can use arcade entertainment for employee reward and staff appreciation events.
A mixture of arcade, racing and social games can create an informal company celebration.
A compact selection of arcade and social games.
Multiple machines creating a temporary workplace arcade.
Racing, reaction and sports challenges.
A mixture of interactive games for a staff reward event.
Pool, table football and relaxed multiplayer entertainment.
Multiple arcade, racing, reaction, sports and social gaming zones.
Packages can be adapted around your employee numbers, London venue, available space and event format.
Boutique Party Hire can provide suitable staff appreciation game hire throughout:
Arcade machines, racing games, reaction challenges, sports games, pool, table football and multiplayer entertainment can all work for suitable staff events.
Yes, subject to suitable access, space and power.
Yes. Multiple arcade machines can be combined into a dedicated workplace gaming area.
Yes. Racing, reaction, sports and arcade challenges can be combined into a company leaderboard.
Yes. Interactive entertainment can form part of suitable employee reward and recognition events.
Yes. Larger events can use multiple entertainment zones to increase capacity.
Yes. Games can operate alongside suitable staff parties and company socials.
Yes. Smaller packages can be created for individual departments and teams.
Yes. Suitable staff appreciation events can be covered throughout Canary Wharf and London.
Yes. We can provide suitable staff appreciation game hire throughout Central and Greater London.
Planning a staff appreciation day, employee reward event, staff thank-you, company celebration or employee recognition event in London?
Boutique Party Hire can provide anything from a few interactive games to a complete temporary workplace arcade and company tournament.
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