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Just two in 10 U.S. employees say they have a best friend at work, according to Gallup's own engagement research (Gallup, 2022). That number matters more than it sounds. Gallup has also found that employees who strongly agree they have a best friend at work are seven times more likely to be engaged in their job (Gallup CliftonStrengths). A work bestie quiz won't manufacture a friendship. But it's a two-minute, low-stakes way to find out who on your team already qualifies.
The format itself is simple. You answer ten short questions about yourself. A coworker guesses back. The score that comes out is smaller talk than a performance review and considerably more revealing than the small talk you actually have most Mondays. No email address, no login, and nothing that needs to go through the HR portal.
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What is a work bestie quiz?
A work bestie quiz is built around one person: you, but the version of you your coworkers actually see. Not your LinkedIn bio. Your actual coffee order. The meeting you privately dread every week. What's really sitting in your desk drawer.
Those answers become the answer key. A coworker then opens the same quiz and tries to match what you said. Each correct guess earns a point, and at the end they land on a score out of 10.
That score is the whole point. Not a personality type, not a Myers-Briggs-adjacent label — a number. Did they know you take your coffee black after 2pm out of pure survival instinct? Did they guess your actual go-to lunch order, or did they confidently name something from the one time you ordered it in 2024?
People call it a "how well do you know your coworker" quiz, an office bestie test, or a work best friend quiz — same format, different name. If you want the general mechanics the format is built on, the BFF test guide and the best friend test guide cover it in more depth.
How does a work bestie quiz work?
No app to install, no work email required, no meeting invite. Here's the full process:
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You answer 10 questions about yourself. Takes about two minutes, best done between calls rather than during one. Coffee order, desk snack, the meeting you complain about most. Honest answers make the quiz interesting — the impressive version of your lunch order defeats the point.
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You get a personal quiz link. It's yours, and it doesn't expire. Drop it in a Slack DM, post it to your team channel, or send it through Teams chat. A group channel produces more chaos. Chaos is, statistically, the more entertaining outcome.
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Coworkers play and get scored automatically. They answer the same 10 questions trying to match yours. Every match is a point, and their result lands on your leaderboard the moment they finish. You don't tally anything. You just get to see who was actually listening in the last standup.
The leaderboard is the underrated part. A single score is a fun fact. A score everyone on the team can see is a competition — which means one link, dropped in a channel of fifteen people, quietly turns into fifteen people arguing about who's the real work bestie.
What questions are on a work bestie quiz?
The best work bestie quiz questions sit in the gap between "obviously knows this" and "wait, does he though?" They stay away from anything a company handbook would flag, and they lean on the small, specific habits coworkers actually notice — or completely miss.
A solid coworker quiz covers four areas:
- Desk and coffee — coffee or tea order, desk snack, what's actually in that drawer nobody's allowed to open.
- Meeting habits — camera on or off by default, the recurring meeting you complain about, what you're doing during a "quick sync" that runs 40 minutes.
- Deadline behaviour — how you actually handle a Friday-afternoon deadline, whether you're a planner or a last-minute sprinter.
- Off-the-clock — lunch spot, commute playlist, what you do the second you log off.
Here's what those questions look like in practice:
Ten questions is the right count — enough to be revealing, short enough that a coworker finishes it on a coffee break instead of leaving it in a browser tab until Thursday.
Why do work friendships matter?
Workplace friendship research has been quietly serious for a lot longer than the quiz format has existed. Gallup has tracked it since the 1990s as part of its Q12 employee engagement survey, which includes a specific, deliberately blunt item: "I have a best friend at work." It's not a soft-skills afterthought. It's one of twelve core questions Gallup uses to predict which teams actually perform.
Gallup's broader modelling on this item is stark: shifting an organisation's ratio toward six in ten employees having a best friend at work is associated with fewer safety incidents, higher profit, and stronger customer engagement scores. None of that is about the quiz. It's about what a real work friendship correlates with once it exists.
Not every coworker needs to become your best friend, and treating this quiz like a mandatory bonding exercise is the fastest way to make people dread it. The honest use case is smaller: it's a low-effort way to find out, without an awkward direct question, which one or two people on your team already pay real attention. Given that only two in 10 employees report having that person at work at all, finding out who's a candidate is worth two minutes, even if the rest of the team never plays.
How do you share it on Slack, Teams, and email?
Once you finish your quiz, you get one link. It works everywhere text can go and it never expires. Here's what actually gets it played:
A Slack DM to one specific coworker is the most personal move — it reads as "I want to know if you've actually been paying attention," and that gets answered faster than almost anything you'd post publicly.
A team channel works differently. Posting it once turns a slow Friday afternoon into a mini leaderboard event, and the person who scores lowest almost always demands a rematch in the same thread.
Microsoft Teams chat behaves the same way as Slack — paste the link, let it sit, and it usually gets picked up between meetings rather than during one.
One practical note for distributed teams: the Best Friend Game work bestie quiz runs in 15 languages, so a coworker in a different office can switch language when they open the link. Nothing extra to configure. The link handles it.
How do you keep a work bestie quiz office-appropriate?
Most people just answer the quiz and send the link. A few extra habits make it noticeably better without turning it into an HR conversation:
- Keep every answer work-safe. Coffee order, desk snack, meeting habits — plenty of material lives entirely inside professional bounds. Skip salary, skip politics, skip anything about a specific coworker who isn't playing.
- Be specific, not vague. "Coffee" is guessable by anyone. "Oat milk latte, but only before 11am, otherwise just water" is not — and that gap between expected and actual answer is what makes people screenshot their score.
- Send it when the calendar is quiet. Friday afternoon or right after a big deadline lands beats dropping it mid-sprint. Nobody plays a two-minute quiz during a release freeze.
- Don't guilt the non-players. Some coworkers won't touch it, and that's fine. The people who do play are the ones the quiz was actually for.
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Create My Work Bestie Quiz FreeFrequently asked questions about work bestie quizzes
What is a work bestie quiz?
A work bestie quiz is a coworker version of the classic "how well do you know me" quiz. You answer 10 questions about yourself — your coffee order, your meeting pet peeve, your desk snack of choice — and a coworker tries to match your answers. Their score out of 10 shows how well they actually know you past your Slack status.
What questions does a coworker quiz ask?
Good coworker quiz questions stay office-safe but specific: your go-to coffee order, which recurring meeting you complain about most, your desk snack, the app you check the second a call ends, how you actually behave on deadline day. Nothing about salary, nothing about other people, nothing that needs an HR review before you hit send.
How do I make a work bestie quiz for free?
Go to Best Friend Game, enter your name, answer 10 questions about yourself, and grab your quiz link. No account, no company email required, no cost. The whole thing takes under two minutes. Drop the link in a Slack DM, a Teams chat, or a group channel, and your coworkers' scores land on your leaderboard automatically.
Is it appropriate to share a work bestie quiz at the office?
Yes, as long as your own answers stay work-appropriate. The quiz only knows what you type into it — keep your answers to coffee, snacks, meeting habits, and general preferences, and it reads as a harmless team-bonding moment, not an HR incident. Skip anything about pay, politics, or specific coworkers, and it's fine for a Slack channel or a team chat.
What's the difference between a work bestie and a work wife or work husband?
The terms overlap but aren't identical. A work wife or work husband usually implies a specific, often exclusive pairing — the one person you debrief with after every meeting. A work bestie is the broader term: any coworker you'd genuinely miss if they left the company. Most offices have several candidates for work bestie and, at most, one work wife or work husband.
Why do work friendships matter for engagement?
Gallup's employee engagement research includes a specific question — "I have a best friend at work" — as one of its 12 core engagement drivers. Gallup reports that employees who strongly agree they have a best friend at work are seven times more likely to be engaged in their job, yet only two in 10 U.S. employees say they have one. That gap is exactly what a work bestie quiz is built to close a little.
Can I send a work bestie quiz on Slack or Microsoft Teams?
Yes. Once you finish your quiz, you get a personal link that works anywhere text can go. Paste it into a Slack DM, drop it in a team channel, or send it through Teams chat. When a coworker taps it, they answer the same questions trying to match yours, and their score goes straight to your leaderboard — no forwarding, no spreadsheet, no follow-up required.
Most people spend more waking hours with coworkers than with anyone else in their life, and still can't say for certain how their desk neighbour takes their coffee. A two-minute quiz doesn't fix a disengaged team on its own. But it's a low-stakes way to find out which coworker already qualifies as a work bestie, and Gallup's own numbers suggest that's worth knowing before the next reorg makes the question moot.