Employee Engagement Event Ideas for Happy Teams: Spring and Summer Picks

If you want to create a healthy office environment for your team, one of the best things you can do is encourage them to take a break during the workday. Taking breaks at work helps employees manage stress, improve their work-life balance, and feel happier and more productive. Plus, it’s just a nice thing to do!

Breaks can be as simple as grabbing a snack or walking around the building. But they can also be intentional. A well-planned employee engagement event will bring your team together and make your office an exciting place to work.

Here at The FruitGuys, we specialize in employee events focused on food and wellness, and we have all kinds of fun employee engagement event ideas. Here are just a few creative ways you can unite your team this spring and summer—with or without our help.

Spring Employee Engagement Event Ideas

Spring is a stressful time in a lot of workplaces: The shine of the new year is wearing off, and teams are starting to dig deep into their goals for Q2. Employee wellness events like these can break up those busy workdays and help everyone avoid burnout.

Ojai Pixie Tangerine Tasting

Spring is the season for Ojai Pixie tangerines, a special fruit that appears for just a few months each year! Ojai Pixies are a type of super-sweet and seedless mandarin that grows exclusively on small farms in California’s Ojai Valley. The FruitGuys can deliver them to your office along with stories about the amazing farms your team is supporting with every bite.

Sustainable Snack Tasting

Celebrate Earth Month in April with a bulk delivery of Climate Candy, a FruitGuys snack partner that rescues excess and imperfect fruits and vegetables from farms and turns them into sweet-tart fruit chews. Not only do the chews taste delicious, but they also provide a great opportunity to educate your team about food waste and how to prevent it.

Earth Month Farmers Market

Earth Month and Earth Day are ideal times to share nature’s bounty: fresh produce! Treat your team to a mini farmers market in the office stocked with fruits and veggies—bonus points if they’re locally grown (an eco-friendly choice that reduces greenhouse gas emissions). The FruitGuys can provide the produce and, depending on your location, a local farmer to hand it out to your team.

Exotic Fruit Tasting

As winter and spring citrus transitions to summer stone fruit, keep things fun and fresh with a tasting of exotic produce like Kiwano melons, dragon fruits, star fruits, or kiwi berries! Our team can suggest the best mix of unique bites for your region and provide helpful information like where each fruit originated, its cultural significance, its health benefits, and how to eat it.

Summer Employee Engagement Event Ideas

Summer means competing with a lot of other things for your team’s attention: vacations, family commitments, and gorgeous weather, just to name a few. To keep your team feeling connected and excited for in-office work, try one of these fun employee engagement events.

Smoothie Demonstration

Invite The FruitGuys to stop by with the ingredients for delicious fruit smoothies and deliver an expert demonstration. Your team will love cooling off with tasty samples and heading back to their desks with a simple, healthy recipe to make again.

Pride Month Snack Tasting

Celebrate Pride Month in June with a bulk delivery of granola from Early Bird Foods & Co., an LGBTQ+-owned snack company and FruitGuys snack partner. This can be as simple as ordering a few cases of granola and inviting the team to the break room to unbox them and learn about the brand’s heartwarming story.

Stone Fruit Tasting

Dig into summer’s bounty with a stone fruit tasting! Invite your team to try nectarines, peaches, apricots, pluots, and more—whatever is fresh near you. The FruitGuys can deliver cases of your favorites and share fun facts about each fruit, like who grew it and its health benefits. Then, employees can snack together, compare notes on their favorites, and learn local farm stories.

Mocktail Moment

Bring your team to the break room or kitchen for a mocktail experience with The FruitGuys, showcasing fresh fruit and fruit juice! Not only is this a refreshing break from the workday, but sampling the mocktails can also help your team stay hydrated in the summer heat. They’ll love getting healthy recipes to take home, too.

Plan an Employee Engagement Event with The FruitGuys

Whether you want a done-for-you farmers market or a few cases of fruit or snacks delivered to your break room, we can make your employee engagement event ideas a reality. Just fill out our quick and easy event quote request form to start planning with us. You’ll save time and stress, and your team will get an amazing experience designed to keep them happy and healthy.