Microsoft has added a brand new app known as Games for Work to Teams, which can enable customers to dive into some informal multiplayer titles collectively. As many as 250 individuals can play Microsoft Solitaire, Microsoft Minesweeper, Microsoft IceBreakers and Microsoft Wordament with one another.

Solitaire and Minesweeper are, in fact, traditional Windows video games. Players will go head-to-head in Solitaire in a race to complete first. In Minesweeper, they will staff as much as clear the board and every individual can have a number of lives in case they click on on a mine.

Unsurprisingly, Wordament is a phrase sport. There’s a leaderboard the place you may see the way you fare in contrast along with your coworkers. IceBreakers does what it says on the tin — you may reply questions on sure matters and maybe discover out slightly extra about your colleagues.

The Teams crew labored with Microsoft Casual Games, an Xbox Game Studios division, on Games for Work. The thought, in accordance with Microsoft, is to assist coworkers “pause and re-energize” in a digital workplace setting. It cites knowledge indicating that groups who play video games collectively for 45 minutes are 20 % extra productive than those that go for different kinds of team-building actions. “Research shows that gaming promotes cognitive benefits, helps foster empathy and encourages inclusion, team building and learning,” the corporate added.

Perhaps we’ll see a day when Microsoft bakes Xbox Cloud Gaming into Teams. In the meantime, you can clear rudimentary digital minefields with colleagues and battle it out with them in Solitaire. As for people working at firms utilizing Google Meet, there is no cause to really feel unnoticed: you may play video games like Uno Mobile with colleagues too.