Press Mentions
Articles highlighting teambuilding.com in national and industry media.
- Nectar The State Of Workplace Connection In 2025: How Sociable Is Your Team? Grace He, our People & Culture Director, on building deeper workplace connection through one-on-ones.
- The New York Times Did the Grinch Come for the Office Holiday Party? Hootsuite told the Times it runs its virtual holiday parties on teambuilding.com, with holiday-themed trivia.
- Bloomberg Office Holiday Party Booze Is Being Replaced With Guac and Pickleball Angela Robinson quoted throughout on inclusive, activity-first holiday parties — featuring the Great Guac Off.
- Fast Company How to Tell if Your Micromanaging is Helpful or Out of Control Cites teambuilding.com's guidance on how micromanagement signals distrust and slows teams down.
- Forbes 7 Tips for Throwing A Remote Holiday Party Your Whole Team Will Enjoy Michael Alexis' structured virtual holiday party playbook anchors the lead tip.
- Financial Times US Employers Slow Down Hiring Before Holiday Shopping Rush
- WorkLife The Employers Helping Staff with the Cost-of-Living Crisis How we gave full-time staff $1,500 cost-of-living relief payments, with Michael Alexis quoted.
- They Got Acquired A Museum Tours Business Scaled to $2.8M in Revenue Using Comedians and Actors The story of Tasia Duske and Michael Alexis' leadership buyout of Museum Hack and the pivot to teambuilding.com.
- ConsumerAffairs Another 4.3 Million Americans Quit Their Jobs in January Michael Alexis on why hybrid and remote flexibility became table stakes during the Great Resignation.
- WorkLife Black History Month Marks Opportunity to Celebrate Results from Those 'Truly Committed' Our Black-history trivia night that raised a $5,000 donation to Black Girls Code, with Michael Alexis quoted.
- WorkLife To Combat the 'Great Resignation' Employers Are Boosting How They Help Staff with Financial Wellness Michael Alexis on our employee financial wellness program — a book, a workshop, and a retirement-account bonus.
- HR Dive Group Interviews Need Structure, Clear-Cut Criteria Michael Alexis on how group interviews reveal culture fit — drawn from 300+ hires in a year.
- BizBash 16 Halloween-Themed Virtual Team-Building Ideas Two of our events featured: the Virtual Halloween Party and International Monster Hunter.
- Washington Post Office Holiday Parties Are Transformed for Public Health and Economic Crises Michael Alexis on reinventing the holiday party for Zoom — parties need 'a really strong element of engagement.'
- Inverse How One Company Rebuilt Itself Overnight by Running Tiny Virtual Campfires A feature-length Q&A with Michael Alexis on launching virtual team building within 24 hours of the shutdown.
- Inverse This Startup Founder Learned the Hard Way That the Easiest Solution Is the Best One A profile of our pre-pandemic playbook: running team building activities in 16+ U.S. cities.
Interviews & Podcasts
Long-form conversations featuring our leadership on building happier, more connected teams.
- The Modern Manager Build Strong Teams Through Effective Team Building Activities Michael Alexis on the ins and outs of effective team building, for an audience of managers.
- Building Remotely How can you create a happy remote team? Michael Alexis on what actually makes remote teams happy and engaged.
- The Economist The World Ahead: The Future of Work One of three experts discussing remote work and employee engagement on The World Ahead.
- Mixergy Recession Proof: How to snap back from sudden financial loss The full story of pivoting to virtual team building in the first weeks of COVID.
- Arival Online Successful Pivots: How to Not Go Out of Business A four-founder panel on reinventing your business — featuring our Museum Hack era.
Case Studies & Partners
Collaborations that showcase the impact of our events and partnerships.
- Greenspark How Teambuilding.com Gamified Giving Back Through Their Do Good Dash How our Do Good Dash plants trees and rescues ocean-bound plastic during team events.
- Upwork How Upwork Talent Helps an Events Company Thrive in Virtual Spaces Inside our content operation: 30–40 articles a week and 2M+ monthly visitors.
- Zapier How a bootstrapped business used automation to bring its in-person team-building program online How 100,000+ automated tasks per month powered the pivot from museum tours to virtual events.
- JazzHR How JazzHR is Helping This Virtual Company Hire During COVID-19 Scaling from fewer than 5 to 100+ employees during the virtual pivot.
The Museum Hack Years
Before teambuilding.com, our team ran Museum Hack — renegade museum tours covered by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek.
- Los Angeles Times This Art Museum Tour Starts with a Group Cheer: 'Dismantle the Patriarchy!' A dedicated feature on our women-centric Getty tour — our gallery audit drove the reporting.
- Forbes The Wildest Wackiest 'Un-Highlights' Museum Tour A first-person review of our Natural History Museum tour: 'I'm now hooked on Museum Hack.'
- The New York Times Museum Tours for People Who Don't Like Museum Tours Museum Hack anchors the Times' trend feature: 'Museums are competing with Netflix, Facebook and iPhones.'
- Washington Post Sleepovers? Feminist Tours? Custom Beer? Museums Get Creative to Engage New Audiences Museum Hack leads the feature — and the lead photo — on how museums win new audiences.
- Bloomberg Businessweek Renegade Museum Tours Lure Newbies, Bros, and the Easily Bored A Businessweek feature on how our renegade tours grew into consulting for museums themselves.
- CNN How to Navigate 5,000 Years of Art in One Day at the Met Founder Nick Gray as CNN's recurring expert guide to the Met.
- CNBC The Wildest, Weirdest Corporate Team-Building Trip Ideas Our museum team building featured: 230 corporate customers in a year — the roots of teambuilding.com.
- Inc. The Start-Up That Is Revolutionizing Museums An interview with Michael Alexis on growing Museum Hack past $2M/year with clients like Google and LEGO.
- Quartz Finally, an Art Museum Tour for People Who Hate Art A first-person review of the Un-Highlights tour at the Met.
- PBS NewsHour To Woo Millennials, Museum Tour Group Taps Into the Digital Age NewsHour Weekend joined our Met tour for a segment on winning younger museum audiences.
- Newsweek Girls Gone Ancient With Museum Hack A 2,000-word feature on our bachelorette-party tours at the Met.
- Forbes Our Museums Are Broken — These 5 Fixes Can Make Them Fun Again Built entirely around founder Nick Gray's ideas for making museums fun.
- The Wall Street Journal Museum Hack's Tasting-Menu Approach to the Art Museum Tour The WSJ joined one of our earliest Met tours — a full feature on the four-month-old startup.
Media Contact
Connect with our press team for expert commentary, interviews, or tailored resources.
Carly Hill
Managing Director
Carly partners with journalists, podcasters, and producers to share fresh insights on workplace culture and the future of team building. Reach out for quotes, data requests, or customer success stories.
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