Retirements
Retirement party games and ideas that honour a whole career
Thirty years of work means people from every stage: the first boss, the long-time team, the new starters. A retirement party should give all of them a way in, and give the person something better than a clock to take home.
Ideas
Four ideas for a retirement party
Most retirement parties are speeches and a slideshow. These bring in everyone else.
Stories from every decade
Ask colleagues past and present for one story from their time together. Put them in order and you have a career, told by the people who were there.
A retirement party game about the person retiring
How many years did they spend in the job? Which office did they start in? What was the famous lunch order? A quiz about the person is the one activity everyone in the room can join.
Advice for retirement
Ask everyone for one piece of advice for retired life: the hobby to take up, the trip to finally book. It turns a farewell into a send-off toward something.
Short toasts, not long speeches
Keep the formal speeches to one, and let everyone else give a one line toast. It is kinder to the people who hate public speaking, and to the person retiring.
What to ask for
What to ask colleagues for
Send these to current and former colleagues two or three weeks ahead. Former ones often have the best stories.
- What's your earliest memory of working with them?
- Send a photo from any year, and tell us roughly when and where it was.
- What's a number from their career only you would know?
- One piece of advice for their retirement.
- What will the place be like without them?
Why it works
Why not just the speeches?
Speeches give the floor to two or three people. Hear Hear gives it to everyone who worked with them: their stories become the questions, their toasts go up between rounds, and the person retiring hears from people who would never have stood up and spoken.
How to run it
How to run a retirement with Hear Hear
Set it up as a retirement.
Pick Retirement and who is coming. Hear Hear proposes rounds that suit a warm, mixed crowd.
Reach past and present colleagues.
Share the link by email or in the team chat, and ask people to pass it on to anyone who has moved on.
Check everything first.
Checked is the default: you approve each memory and photo before the day, so nothing on the screen surprises you.
Run it after the formal speech.
Everyone answers on their phone, toasts appear between rounds, and the person retiring leaves with a page of every story and photo.
Setup suggests the Soft 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
- What if some guests aren't confident with technology?
- Guests open a link or scan a code with their phone's camera and type a first name. No app and no account. Anyone who would rather just watch can follow along on the TV.
- Can family come too?
- Yes. Choose a mix when setup asks who is coming, and the questions and tone suit colleagues and family together.
- Do they get to keep it?
- On a paid event, yes: a keepsake page of every memory, photo, toast and piece of advice, which anyone with the link can open and save.
Send them off with every story.
Set it up in a few minutes, try it free, and share the link with your guests.
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