The #1 corporate team building company in North America

Building Relationships Through Memorable Experiences

The strongest corporate teams prioritize trust, communication, and camaraderie, and that’s what the right team building activities deliver. Backed by 30,000+ corporate teams, virtual team building activities and employee engagement activities work for remote, hybrid, and in-office teams alike.

Benefits of Team Building

Engagement Employees who feel connected to their colleagues show up differently
Communication Break down silos and get people talking to each other
Morale Small improvements in how people feel lead to big gains in productivity
Collaboration Teams that solve problems together work better long after the event ends
Retention People stay where they feel part of something
More than 30,000 corporate groups across North America, including Microsoft, Google, and Coca-Cola, trust Outback to help them build stronger teams. With 20 years of experience and a 10/10 customer rating, we deliver results that keep organizations coming back.
Our Solutions

Explore Our Activities & Programs

Every team has unique needs. We deliver team building activities in a variety of formats to help you find the perfect fit.  

In-person Team Building Activities

From conferences to retreats, office events, and everything in between, in-person team building activities help your team build trust, have fun, and sharpen their skills face to face. These corporate retreat activities and corporate event activities get people collaborating in real life.

Explore In-Person Activities
virtual bingo

Virtual Team Building Activities

Connection and interaction are essential for remote teams. Our virtual team building activities and remote team building activities are scalable for distributed workforces, and our online employee engagement activities offer a fun, unique, and interactive experience.

Explore Virtual Activities

Self-hosted Team Building

Run your team building activity without a facilitator. Our self-hosted team building activities are a fun, simple, and cost-effective way to build bonds, create engagement, and collaborate with your team.

Explore Self-Hosted Activities
A man speaks into a microphone while a diverse group of people attentively listen in a casual indoor event space.

Professional Development

We offer more than 25 professional development and leadership training programs, delivered anywhere in North America. Your team can build skills in communication, coaching, conflict resolution, and management fundamentals with a facilitator who runs the session for you.

Explore Programs

How Outback Team Building Helps You Plan Successful Team Events

Our Employee Engagement Consultants make it easy for you to pick, plan, and host a team building activity that achieves your goals.

Tell Us About Your Team

Share your group size, goals, location, and preferred format. That’s all we need to get started.

Get Personalized Recommendations

We match you with activities that fit your team and deliver your desired outcomes.

Plan Your Event With Experts

We help you lock in dates, logistics, and customizations. You’ll work with a real person, not automated replies or generic templates.

Deliver an Engaging Experience

Your team shows up and participates while we handle the rest. You get to enjoy the event too.

OUR ACTIVITIES

Featured Team Building Experiences

Need Help Choosing the Right Team Building Format?

Our experts consider your goals, team size, and budget, then recommend the right fit in under 10 minutes. You get straightforward advice from people who plan these events every day.

TEAM BUILDING GOALS

Team Building Solutions Based on Your Goals

Not sure what type of team building fits best? Start with the outcome you want to achieve.

Improve Employee Engagement

Low morale and disengaged employees hurt productivity. Our employee engagement activities strengthen workplace connections and belonging. The result is higher participation and genuine workplace culture improvement through proven employee morale activities.

Strengthen Communication & Collaboration

Silos and miscommunication create barriers that hinder success. Our communication workshops for teams and team collaboration activities break down barriers between departments. Teams leave aligned and equipped with stronger problem-solving skills through workplace collaboration solutions that stick.

Leadership Development

Future leaders do not emerge by accident. Our Leadership Development workshops and management training prepare rising managers to lead with confidence through leadership team development that builds strong internal talent.

Boost Remote Team Connection

Building connection in distributed teams is essential to their success. Our remote team building activities help bridge the digital divide. Through remote employee engagement and virtual employee connection, remote workers become active participants in their team.

Support Company Culture & Retention

Retaining your A-players starts with keeping them engaged. Our company culture activities reinforce shared values, creating internal alignment and measurable workplace culture improvements.

Onboarding & New Hire Integration

The first 90 days set the tone for every employee joining your team. Our solutions help new hires build relationships faster and feel like part of the team from week one. The result is a smoother onboarding experience.

Our Value

Why Do Companies Choose Outback Team Building?

Companies come for the activities and stay for the results. Here is what makes Outback different.

As a corporate team building company trusted by over 30,000 organizations, we provide team engagement programs and employee experience solutions that deliver measurable outcomes — not just a fun afternoon.

Smiling business team celebrating success with a laptop in a modern office setting

Flexible Experiences for Any Team Size

Whether you have 10 people or 1,000, our team building activities scale to fit your group without losing impact.

Smiling woman working on a laptop from her home office with coffee and notes on the desk

Fast Planning & Dedicated Support

You work with a seasoned event planning expert who helps you choose, plan, and execute your team building activity from start to finish.

Person participating in a virtual meeting, waving at colleagues on a video call from a modern home office workspace

Scalable Events Across North America

We deliver consistent scalable team experiences across North America, from coast to coast.

winning team group photo

Customizable Team Experiences

Our team building activities can be tailored to your needs. You can mix themes, adjust difficulty, or add charitable components so that your event works for your team rather than feeling like a template.

Coworkers celebrate and connect through outdoor team building games in a vibrant company retreat

Professional Facilitators & Hosts

Our event hosts keep energy high, logistics smooth, and participants engaged so that you can enjoy and actively participate in your event.

Business meeting with a woman presenting at a whiteboard to colleagues.

Activities Designed for Authentic Engagement

Every one of our team building activities is designed to get people interacting, sharpening skills, and leaving with stronger connections.

Plan a Team Building Event That Actually Delivers Results

Planning a team event should not feel like a second job. Our experts help you choose the right activity, handle the logistics, and make sure your team walks away with more than just a good time.

People posing for a photo
About Us

Who We Are

Outback Team Building is a corporate team building company that has helped over 30,000 organizations across North America. We deliver scalable team experiences for remote, virtual, self-hosted, outdoor, and in-office teams — backed by 30+ years of experience.

We do not just run activities. We act as a strategic partner focused on real workplace outcomes like communication, collaboration, and retention. Our employee engagement solutions and team engagement programs are built to fit your team’s size, location, and goals.

THE PAYOFF

The Business Impact of Team Building

When done right, team building delivers goes beyond fun, delivering measurable returns you can track against a baseline. Investing in team building helps improve the metrics that show up on your company’s bottom line.

Request a Quote
  1. Employee retention impact

    Replacing one employee costs between half and double their annual salary. Our employee retention strategies help reduce turnover through genuine connection, and even a small improvement produces meaningful savings.

  2. Disengagement reduction

    A disengaged employee costs roughly a third of their salary in lost productivity. Purposeful collaboration rebuilds the connection that engagement depends on.

  3. Productivity improvements

    Highly engaged teams are up to 23% more productive. Workplace productivity improvement follows naturally from stronger trust and communication.

  4. Collaboration improvements

    Improved connection and collaboration was the most common outcome our customers reported in 2025, named in more than half of all written feedback.

  5. Onboarding effectiveness

    Cohesive teams integrate new hires faster because trust is already in place, and integration speed is an outcome you can track.

Get a Custom Team Building Recommendation in Minutes

Tell us about your team, goals, and preferred format. Our event specialists will recommend activities that actually fit — whether your people are remote, hybrid, or in-office.

Choosing The Right Activity

Compare Team Building Formats Before You Book

Not sure which format fits your team best? Here’s how in-person, virtual, and self-hosted team building options compare to one another.

Factor In-Person Virtual Self-Hosted
Budget range Higher Mid-range Lower
Activity level High Moderate to High Self-directed
Team size suitability 10 to 1,000+ 10 to 500+ 5 to 200
Ideal for Retreats, offsites, conferences, milestone celebrations, charity give-back events, large groups Remote teams, global offices, hybrid workforces, holiday parties, short-notice events Budget-conscious teams, small groups, internal facilitators, recurring monthly or quarterly events, multi-location rollouts

When choosing team building activities, focus on budget, engagement, and ease. In-person vs virtual team building comes down to where your team sits. A self-hosted team building comparison favors flexibility and cost for groups that want full control.

BY INDUSTRY

Team Building for Every Industry

Tech teams move fast and often work across time zones and screens. We design sessions that build connection in tight windows, so nobody loses an afternoon of sprint time.
Healthcare teams give a lot of themselves on every shift. Our activities give something back, with time to decompress and connect with the colleagues who understand the work best.
Finance teams run on precision and results. We build trust and collaboration in formats that fit your culture and your compliance requirements.
Retail teams span locations, schedules, and busy seasons. We help stores feel like one team, which shows up in morale and keeps good people longer.
Manufacturing depends on coordination between departments and shifts. Our activities put people who rarely cross paths side by side, solving problems together.
Educators pour their energy into students, often on packed calendars and careful budgets. We offer flexible experiences sized to fit a staff development day.
Nonprofit teams are united by mission, and every hour and dollar works hard. Many choose activities that double as fundraising or community impact, so team building advances the cause too.
Distributed teams do great work without sharing an office, and connection takes intention. We design remote experiences people look forward to, with the energy of an event rather than another meeting.
Testimonials

What Our Clients Are Saying

Amazon – Code Break

Outback was easy to work with and our host (Andrea) was spectacular.

Lovely event! Outback was easy to work with and our host (Andrea) was spectacular. We’re a pretty introverted group but I really appreciated her enthusiasm. It was difficult enough for us – and we really enjoyed our time!

Amazon

Chevron Phillips Chemical – School Supply Scramble

We received so much feedback on how fun the activities were and were grateful to be able to help kids in need!

The communication was amazing from start to finish with the Outback team and reps that were assigned to our organization! They accommodated each of our requests with no issues and allowed us the freedom and flexibility to select what was needed for our organization. We received so much feedback on how fun the activities were and were grateful to be able to help kids in need!

Chevron Phillips Chemical

CVS Health – Escape Room Jewel Heist

A lot of fun and a great way to have people collaborate and use their problem-solving skills.

All of the participants really enjoyed the event. The Jewel Heist Escape Room was a lot of fun and a great way to have people collaborate and use their problem-solving skills.

CVS Health

ERCOT – Hollywood Murder Mystery

Internal feedback was extremely positive from the highest levels

The event was great fun and ran flawlessly across three sites simultaneously. Internal feedback was extremely positive from the highest levels and we would not hesitate to use Outback again.

ERCOT

Fairlife – Team Pursuit – Webster

Our Host Was Excellent

Our host did an excellent job. She was organized, positive and full of contagious energy.

Fairlife

Costco – Hollywood Murder Mystery

Thank you to the Outback team for keeping me informed right from the start.

Everything was amazing. Our host kept us engaged and laughing the entire time. We have some very competitive people in our group but the variety of questions were perfect for everyone. Thank you to the Outback team for keeping me informed right from the start. Great job all around.

Costco

Microsoft – Bellevue – Clue Murder Mystery

All who attended raved about how fun the event was

We have had a great experience with all of my contacts at Outback from booking to execution. Our event facilitator was wonderful and all who attended raved about how fun the event was.

Microsoft

Micron Technology

I have arranged many team building experiences and this was by far the best ever

Everyone had a fantastic time and really enjoyed the Wild Goose Chase activity. I have arranged many team building experiences and this was by far the best ever. The Outback team was very professional and organized.

Micron Technology

Case Studies

Customer Success Stories & Team Building Case Studies

Real results from real teams. Here is how Outback has helped organizations build stronger workplace cultures.

Finance 50+ people Virtual

BMO Bank of Montreal

BMO brought more than 50 employees together for a virtual team building event designed to reconnect a workforce that had grown distant. People were hesitant and disengaged at the start, but the interactive format quickly broke the ice and pulled everyone into the experience. By the end, colleagues who rarely spoke were laughing and collaborating, and leadership reported nothing but positive feedback from across the team. It became a reference point for how the company approaches remote engagement going forward.

Technology Distributed team Virtual

Cisco

Cisco needed to build genuine connection across a large, distributed team spread over multiple time zones. We ran a fully facilitated virtual escape room that gave employees a shared challenge to solve together, no matter where they were logging in from. The energy was immediate, with people problem-solving, competing, and celebrating as one group rather than a collection of remote workers. Days afterward, employees were still talking about the experience and asking when the next one would be.

Retail Company-wide In-Person

Loblaws

Loblaws wanted team building that would strengthen internal bonds while also giving back to the community. Through an Outback Cares charity event, employees worked side by side to assemble donations, raising $18,000 for a local cause in the process. The day delivered on both fronts: morale climbed as teams collaborated toward something meaningful, and the company made a tangible impact beyond its own walls. It proved that purpose and team building can work hand in hand.

Education 150 people In-Person

Texas School District

A Texas school district was facing widespread teacher burnout and little collaboration across its 13 campuses. We designed a large-scale in-person event that brought 150 teachers together for a day built around connection, energy, and shared experience. Educators who had never met left with new relationships and a renewed sense of community across the district. Staff described it as the best team building event they had ever been part of.

Technology Any size Self-Hosted

Oracle

Oracle wanted a high-impact event that required minimal internal coordination to pull off. Our self-hosted Clue Murder Mystery gave the team everything they needed to run a polished, engaging activity entirely on their own schedule. Setup was effortless, the format kept everyone involved, and the flexibility meant it fit neatly around a busy work week. Two days later, employees were still talking about who cracked the case first.

Our Locations

Team Building Activities Across North America

Wherever your people are located, we bring teams together.

Cloud Gate The Bean sculpture in Millennium Park Chicago with city skyline reflections

United States

Team building activities across major U.S. cities — from New York to Los Angeles, Chicago to Austin. We deliver in-person events, corporate retreats, and professional development workshops for corporate groups in the United States and Canada.

Explore Locations

Canada

Team building activities across major Canadian cities — including Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Montreal. Virtual and in-person programs plus corporate team engagement events for teams of every size.

Explore Locations

Remote & Hybrid Teams

Virtual team building for remote teams worldwide means no one gets left out. Our employee engagement solutions for hybrid workplaces keep distributed teams connected, whether employees are at home, in the office, or spread across multiple time zones.

Explore Virtual Activities

Explore Featured Locations

Frequently Asked Questions About Team Building Activities

Quick answers to common questions about planning, logistics, and what to expect.

Speak With a Team Building Specialist

As a corporate team building company trusted by over 30,000 organizations, Outback makes team building event planning simple and stress-free. Let us help you find the right employee engagement solutions for your team.