Work This or That Questions for Meetings, Calls and Team Lunches: how it works
Work this or that questions open a meeting in under a minute: two options, one tap each, and the card shows how the team split. This deck has 86 pairs in 7 groups, from Camera on or camera off to Start the draft or edit the draft. Every pair is about the working day, never pay or rank.
Run a round on a shared screen
Share your screen with the card up and read both options aloud. In a room, count hands and tap a side once per hand. On a call, everyone types A or B in the chat at the same moment, so nobody copies the first answer. Skip swaps a pair that does not fit.
Seven chips, from desks to projects
Desk and workspace (12 pairs) and Commute and work trips (11) are the lightest. Meetings (14) and Email and messages (12) surface habits a team can act on: Agenda in advance or open discussion. Home days and office days (10) suits a hybrid team. Teamwork and projects (13) asks how people work together: Feedback in the moment or feedback in writing.
Tips
New team? Open on Easy, 26 quick preferences such as Mouse or trackpad. The 21 Hard pairs are habits people defend: Inbox at zero or inbox of thousands.
Treat a lopsided split as a request. If the room picks Meetings in one block over Meetings spread out, from The working day (14 pairs), write it down.
Three pairs is plenty before an agenda. With No repeats tonight ticked, no pair comes up twice in one sitting, and Start over puts all 86 back in play.
Questions and answers
What keeps these this or that questions safe for work?
Every pair stays on the job. The editors read the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's page on prohibited practices at eeoc.gov on 2026-09-19 and kept every card away from the characteristics it lists, among them race, religion, sex, national origin, age and disability. No card asks about pay, health or family. That is an editing choice, not legal advice.
Do these work as either or questions in a team channel?
Yes. Some teams call them either or questions and post one a week: Desk lunch or lunch walk on Monday, the split read out on Friday. The full list sits under the deck, grouped under the same 7 headings as the chips. It is our own work, so copy a group into a poll or a slide.
Where do the votes go?
They stay on this device. The count lives in the browser that tapped it, so the host's screen is the only scoreboard. Press Clear votes before a second team plays, or Tuesday's group sees Monday's totals.
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Funny out-of-office note or plain out-of-office note?
Inbox at zero or inbox of thousands?
Notifications on or notifications off?
Quick call or long email?
Reply all or reply to one?
Reply right away or reply in batches?
Say hello first or ask right away?
Voice note or typed message?
The working day 14
Coffee break chat or quiet coffee break?
Deadline tomorrow or deadline next month?
Desk lunch or lunch walk?
Finish it tonight or fresh eyes tomorrow?
Focus time before lunch or focus time after lunch?
Friday wrap-up or monday planning?
Instrumental playlist or background chatter?
Long to-do list or top three only?
Lunch at eleven or lunch at two?
Meetings in one block or meetings spread out?
One thing until done or several things going?
Same hours every day or different hours each day?
Stretch break or snack break?
Tackle the big job or clear the small jobs?
Commute and work trips 11
Beat traffic early or wait traffic out?
Bike to work or walk to work?
Carpool or solo drive?
Closest parking spot or shady parking spot?
Coffee from home or coffee on the way?
Commute with a podcast or commute in silence?
Conference in person or conference online?
Drive to work or take the train?
Ten minutes early or right on time?
Time to think or no commute at all?
Work trip by train or work trip by plane?
Home days and office days 10
Coworkers nearby or quiet house?
Home office or kitchen table?
Laptop on the couch or laptop at a desk?
Lunch in your kitchen or lunch with coworkers?
Office on Mondays or office on Fridays?
Office snacks or home fridge?
Second screen at home or tiny laptop anywhere?
Video call or voice-only call?
Virtual background or real background?
Work clothes at home or comfy clothes at home?
Teamwork and projects 13
Ask the whole group or ask one person?
Big team or small team?
Brainstorm out loud or brainstorm on paper?
Feedback in the moment or feedback in writing?
Lead the project or support the project?
Pair up or work solo?
Plan every step or learn as you go?
Present the work or build the work?
Same project all year or new project each month?
Shared checklist or shared calendar?
Start the draft or edit the draft?
Teach a new skill or learn a new skill?
Team lunch or team volunteer day?
How this list was compiled: Written for this site by the editors; nothing was copied from another list. Every card is a pair of options of one to four words, so both fit on a button. The deck stays on the working day itself: desks, meetings, messages, schedules, commutes, home days and projects. No card asks about pay, benefits, promotions, performance reviews or a supervisor, and no card asks about a player's family, health, beliefs or life outside work. The editors read https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices on 2026-09-19, which lists the characteristics U.S. employment law protects: race, color, religion, sex (including transgender status, sexual orientation and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information. No card touches any of them. That is a choice the editors made about this list; it is not legal advice and not a statement from the EEOC. No software, app or company is named. Each pair was also read against the site's family-safe rule (nothing sexual, no alcohol or drugs, no self-harm, no dares, nothing illegal, no real people, no put-downs), and the whole list was run through a word blocklist and a brand-name list on 2026-09-19 and came back clean. Every pair was compared by script on 2026-09-19 with every other deck on this site, including data/this-or-that-questions.json, data/this-or-that-generator.json, the other this or that decks and data/would-you-rather-questions-for-work.json: no pair appears in any of them. No card has a right answer. Easy, Medium and Hard are an editor's judgment: easy is a quick preference, medium takes a beat, and hard is a working habit people defend. Licence: own work