Farewells
Farewell party ideas and games that beat the group card
Someone is leaving: a job, a team, a city. The usual send-off is drinks, a card everyone signs in a hurry and a speech from the manager. Here is how to give them something better, at work or among friends.
Ideas
Four ideas for a send-off
For a leaving do at work, drinks for a friend moving overseas, or a team saying goodbye to someone.
Ask for stories, not signatures
A card collects "Good luck, all the best". Asking "what's your favourite story about working with them?" collects things they'll want to keep.
A quiz about their time here
Their first day, the project nobody will forget, the lunch order they never changed. A quiz about the person, from what the team remembers, gets the whole room laughing, even the people who only knew them a month.
Advice for what's next
Ask everyone for one piece of advice for the new job, the new city or the next chapter. It turns a goodbye into a send-off.
Include the people who can't come
Remote colleagues and old team mates can send a memory or a toast ahead of time from a link, so their words are in the room even if they aren't.
What to ask for
What to ask the team for
Send these around a week before. Most people can answer in two minutes from their phone.
- What's your favourite story about working with them?
- What will you miss most when they've gone?
- Send a photo from a work trip, a team lunch or Friday drinks, and tell us when it was.
- One piece of advice for wherever they're going next.
- What did they teach you, on purpose or not?
Why it works
Why not just a card and drinks?
A group card gets read once, on the train home. Hear Hear turns what the team sends into a quiz about the person on the screen at the farewell, with toasts between the rounds, and afterwards they keep a page of every story and photo. It fits into half an hour of the drinks.
How to run it
How to run a farewell with Hear Hear
Set it up for work or for friends.
Pick Farewell and who is coming. For a work crowd the content stays suitable for the office: work events never get the Roast.
Share the link early.
Post it in the team chat or the email about the drinks. Colleagues who can't make it can still send something.
If they can't be there.
For someone who has already left, the rounds that need them live drop out or fall to you, and the rest runs as normal.
Run it at the drinks.
Put it on the TV in the meeting room or the pub. Everyone answers on their phone, and the person leaves with the keepsake page.
Setup suggests the General theme for this occasion. You can change it any time, even during the event.
Pricing
Free to try. One price when the AI does the work.
Free
Questions you write, plus the rounds that need nothing sent in. Guests can send things in straight away.
AUD 19.99 an event
The AI turns what your guests send into rounds, with toasts at the event and the keepsake everyone keeps.
The host pays once for the event. Guests never pay. No subscription.
FAQ
Questions people ask
- Is it suitable for a work farewell?
- Yes. Tell setup it's a work crowd and it keeps things suitable: no Roast, and you can approve everything before it goes on the screen.
- Can remote colleagues take part?
- They can send memories, photos and toasts ahead of time from the link, so their words are part of the event even if they aren't in the room.
- How long does it take?
- You choose about 30, 60 or 90 minutes when you set it up. Half an hour fits well into farewell drinks.
Give them a send-off they'll keep.
Set it up in a few minutes, try it free, and share the link with your guests.
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