Circus Jigsaw Puzzle – $18

Is this title misleading? I can’t realistically complete a puzzle a day because I actually have a job to go to, but maybe I can do both?

A story: A few years ago at my second job, my team and I created a couple of traditions together. Underneath a table behind us were a few boxes of puzzles that no one had ever touched. One day we just put one out on the table and decided we could work on it at our leisure or anytime we felt like we needed a mental break. Someone even brought in a photo jigsaw puzzle they ordered from somewhere like Make Photo Puzzle so we could continue this new tradition.

It became a central place for us to work together, to collaborate, and to talk through any issues we were facing within recruiting while working on the puzzle. Shortly after, others outside of our team joined us. The puzzles weren’t just for our team, but they organically brought us all together.

Knowing how well this worked previously, I decided to experiment with my current job. Within three days, a puzzle was done. Two engineers that sat on the same side of the office and never met each other worked together on one. It’s such a simple, inexpensive thing to do, but something I highly recommend, whether it be with a Custom Photo Jigsaw Puzzle or one from a store. Puzzles are completely underrated and definitely don’t get enough love so I’m all for bringing them back.