This or That Questions for Work
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This or that?
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These 50 this or that questions are quick icebreakers for work. Camera on or off? Dark mode or light mode? Hardest task first or easiest? They take five seconds to answer and say a lot about how people like to work, which makes them good for stand-ups, onboarding, remote calls and team building. Nothing touches politics, religion, pay, health or dating.
Everyone picks a side, and once a question has 10 answers you see the split, with the number of votes. Run three or four at the top of a meeting and let people explain their picks.
All 50 This or That questions
A question shows how players split once it has 10 answers, marked “early” until it has 30.
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Email or chat message?
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Morning meetings or afternoon meetings?
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Camera on or camera off?
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Music while working or podcasts while working?
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To-do list app or paper to-do list?
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Inbox zero or 1,000 unread?
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Keyboard shortcuts or mouse clicks?
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Slides or docs?
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Early lunch or late lunch?
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Team lunch or solo lunch?
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Big team or small team?
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Detailed plan or rough sketch?
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Dark mode or light mode?
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Laptop or desktop?
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Sticky notes or whiteboard?
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Shared snack drawer or your own snack stash?
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Big-picture ideas or fine details?
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Tidy desk or creative chaos?
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Team trivia or escape room?
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Virtual background or real background?
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Reply right away or reply at the end of the day?
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Blue pen or black pen?
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Early start or late finish?
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Office plant or desk toy?
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Long weekend or week-long vacation?
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Presenting it or writing it up?
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Quick call or long email?
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Open office or private office?
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Public shout-out or private thank-you?
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Lunch at your desk or lunch outside?
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Train commute or car commute?
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Meeting with an agenda or free-flowing chat?
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Cake for birthdays or donuts for birthdays?
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Pizza party or ice cream social?
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Karaoke night or board game night?
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Packed calendar or wide-open calendar?
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Remote team or in-person team?
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Deadline sprint or slow and steady?
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GIF reactions or emoji reactions?
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Team motto or team emoji?
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One big monitor or two monitors?
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Casual Friday or costume Friday?
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Ask for help or figure it out yourself?
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Hardest task first or easiest task first?
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Noise-canceling headphones or background buzz?
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Brainstorm out loud or brainstorm on paper?
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Notes by hand or notes on a laptop?
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Morning focus or late-day focus?
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Office dog or office fish tank?
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Swivel chair or beanbag chair?
This or That: questions and answers
How do you play This or That?
Someone reads two options and everyone picks one, fast, without overthinking. Start with "Email or chat message?" Here you tap a side (or press 1 or 2), and once a question has 10 answers the split shows right after your pick.
Are these questions OK for school?
Yes. All 50 questions in This or That Questions for Work are written to be school-safe: nothing scary, gross beyond silly, or mean, and no dating, politics or religion. They suit classrooms, youth groups, family game night and team calls.
What do the percentages mean?
Each split is the share of players on BracketRanker who picked each side, with n, the number of answers. A question shows a split once it has 10 answers, marked "early" until it has 30; before that you see how many answers it has so far. Big Screen and classroom votes are counted separately, so one room can't swamp the numbers.
Can I play these on a big screen or in class?
Yes. "Play on the big screen" shows one question at a time in a projector-sized layout. The room votes by show of hands, or with 1 or 2 in a stream chat, and the host taps the winning side.
How many questions are on this page?
50 on this page, all listed above. Play 10 or 20 in a random order, or go through every one.