Staff outing
in Enschede
If you invite the whole staff, you run up against the shift schedule. We set the day up so the evening shift doesn't miss out. From €195 for the group.
The whole staff, including the evening shift
A staff outing in Enschede almost always comes from HR or from management, and the question is broader than for a team outing. With a team outing, one department does something different for an afternoon. Here the whole staff list is on the invitation: office, production, the people who start at six and the crew who only finish at ten. On paper that fits into one afternoon. In practice the same group drops out every year, and those are exactly the people who see little else of the company. That's why we first ask for the shift schedule and then design the day, in that order.
With shift work we often run a programme twice on the same day, for example at the end of the day shift and at the start of the evening shift. The equipment is then already set up, so that second round costs a lot less than a separate second outing. We need a room or an area of company site, power, and a realistic number of participants per round. We're based in Enschede, at Piet Heinstraat 12, so an evening round in the city is no scheduling problem for us. Setting up takes about an hour and falls outside the programme length.
Where it goes wrong with the whole staff
- One moment on a day when only half are free
- The evening shift who only see the photos afterwards
- An invitation that never reaches temps and contractors
How we structure the day
- The same programme twice, around the shift change
- Teams we assign ourselves, so office and production are mixed together
- A fixed end time per round, so the shift doesn't overrun
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between a staff outing and a team outing?
With a team outing it's about one team that talks to each other every day. With a staff outing it's about everyone on the payroll, and then there are people in the room who only know each other by name. That changes the format: we assign the teams ourselves, we keep the instructions shorter and we choose tasks where nobody needs prior knowledge of what another department does.
How do you include the shifts and the evening crew?
We include shift workers by running the programme twice on one day, usually around the shift change. The day shift finishes with the first round, the evening shift starts with the second. Because everything is already set up, that's cheaper and easier to plan than two separate days. Give us the shift schedule when you send your enquiry, and we'll work out the times from it.
We have more than a hundred employees. Is that possible?
Up to about sixty people per round, we run the programme as designed. If the number goes higher, activities run side by side and hosts are added per activity. We price a format like that on request. Tell us the number per shift, and we'll say whether it fits in one day or whether two days would be wiser.
Do you come to our company site?
We come to the client's venue, even if that's a workshop, a car park or half a warehouse. Enschede is our home town and we work all over the Netherlands, so the journey is rarely the problem. If you don't have a suitable place yourselves, we'll find one and list those costs separately in the quote.
What does a staff outing cost, and how soon will we hear something?
A compact activity for a half day starts at €195. A more extensive programme that we set up for your organisation starts at €550, and larger projects we price on request. A second round on the same day is always listed separately in the quote, so you can see what that round costs. We respond to an enquiry within one working day.
Tell us about your staff outing
Just fill in the short form. As soon as we have a picture of the group and the occasion, we'll send a price estimate within 1 working day.
Planning a staff outing in Enschede?
Tell us what kind of group it is and when it needs to happen. We'll think along with no obligation.