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30 Funny Office Superlatives for Remote Employee Awards

Office Superlatives

Teams want to have fun as much as they want to be recognized for work. Awards are a great way to have both at the same time!

Superlatives, awards, or shout-outs, whatever you want to call them, can be a great force for getting your team to celebrate each other in an entertaining way.

Here are 30 great employee award ideas for distributed teams.

30 Funny Office Award Ideas

  1. Roger Ebert Award 🎥 – Gives the best movie recommendations
  2. Gif Master Award 🖼 – Has the best gif responses in Slack
  3. Best Zoom Setup Award 🎙 – Has the highest quality camera and microphone, they look great!
  4. Gordon Ramsay Award 👨‍🍳👩‍🍳 – Most likely to have a lunch you want to try
  5. Mr. or Mrs. Worldwide Award 🌐 – Is replying to messages at times you don’t expect them to
  6. The Sipper Award ☕ – Most likely to be drinking something during a meeting
  7. Office Clown Award 🤡 – Person who cracks the team up the most
  8. Team Scribe Award 📝 – The best meeting note taker
  9. Best Communicator Award 🗣 – Leaves the best notes and instructions
  10. Early Bird Award 🕐 – Most likely to be the first in a Zoom call
  11. Best Zoom Background Award 🔍 – Has the best Zoom backgrounds
  12. Energizer Bunny Award 🐰 – Always brings the energy level up in a group
  13. Icebreaker Award 🧊 – Most likely to start a debate
  14. Big Muncher Award 🍟 – Most likely to be snacking during a meeting
  15. Best Interior Decoration – Has the most magazine worthy office
  16. The Office DJ 🎶 – Makes amazing music recommendations
  17. Event Planner Award 🎈 – Has a hand in planning team activities
  18. The Herder Award 🐑 – Always organizing random thoughts into a cohesive plan
  19. Customer First Award 🥇 – Always thinking about how the customers will think
  20. On Fleek Award 👗 – Best dressed
  21. Technical difficulties Award ❌ – Most likely to have issues during a call
  22. The True Nomad Award ✈ – Always joining meetings from different environments
  23. Cutest Pet Award 🐕 – Has the cutest pets in their zoom calls
  24. Cutest Kids Award 👶 – Has the cutest kids in their zoom calls
  25. Photographer Award 📷 – Takes and shares the best photos
  26. Anchorperson Award 📰 – Always sharing topical news
  27. Geeksquad Award 🔧 – Most likely to fix your technical issues
  28. Mr. Mrs. Wikipedia 🧠 – Always has factoids or new knowledge to share
  29. The Book Club 📚 – Makes the best book recommendations
  30. Green Thumb Award 🌱 – Has the most plants in their workspace

How to have a great staff awards show

Awards are great if they’re done right. We all want to avoid having a boring ceremony, and worst yet, we want to avoid having anyone miffed at an award or a snub.

Here are some things to consider when planning your awards ceremony to ensure everyone has fun.

Use specific categories

No one likes vague awards, make sure that everyone knows who they’re voting for in each category. If it’s not something someone can action on, it’s not specific enough.

Involve everyone

Getting everyone chipping into award ideas or voting for awards is the best way to get the award ceremony you’re after.

Send out a google form with the list of awards and ask people to nominate and vote for winners.

Have a good variety

Mix up silly awards with meaningful awards to keep things novel and light. Make sure everyone has a category that is relevant to them as a person or their role in the team.

Encourage positive actions

While it might be tempting to give awards for messiest workspace and things like that, it’s much more beneficial to have awards that call out positive behaviors in teams.

Adjust ideas to your culture

The ideas we’ve shared are just a starting point, take, leave, and shape awards to best reflect your company culture and values.

Keep it light

These awards should be optimized towards fun, recognition awards shouldn’t impact compensation or other more high stakes work factors.

Remote employee rewards

Trophies are a little harder to hand out to a distributed team, consider sending rewards that reflect the nature of that award.

Gift cards are always a great way to reflect the award, someone that wins the news award could get a free subscription to the New York Times, for example.

If you want to keep costs down, create graphic badges that they can apply to their profile picture.

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