Ever dreamed of banishing your boss? We speak to the office who played their own version of The Traitors and can help you set up your own

Discussing the latest episode of The Traitors may be popular water cooler chat, but what about turning things up a notch and playing your own game in the office?

Well, that’s exactly what one London workplace did – complete with Slack shields, productivity-based missions and boardroom roundtables.

Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), the experimenters in question, said the game was a perfect way to boost team morale and get staff back to the office. The game’s elimination of workplace hierarchy (killing your boss or banishing your manager are both on the cards in this game) was a notable bonus for staff.

So, how did they do it and should you set up your own in your workplace?

So, how did they do it?

At BAC, 20 members of staff (around half of employees) participated in the game, which was held over three weeks in the office. The game ran on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, during which there would be a daily mission and a half-an-hour round table held at the end of the work day to banish an employee.

Amy Vaughan, the company’s (fortunately fringed) executive director and stand-in Claudia, told me the game started with an offhand comment at lunch but soon spiralled. “I thought we’d do it in a week, but too many people wanted to play.”

Murders were committed nightly by the Traitors and revealed every morning in the ultimate workplace brutality – removal from a Slack chat.

Missions, which were set to complete over lunchtime, gave players the........

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