I occasionally go down to the lobby to get a cup because (the office coffee is mediocre and) it means time to socialize and not stare at a screen. The twenty minutes or so I spend polishing off a cup is on the company’s dime.
A bank I used to work at offered coffee to employees and customers but stopped during the pandemic and never started back up again. Because, you know… money.
Even ignoring the “making your workplace not be an insufferable place to be” justification, providing free tea and coffee is basically a legal and fairly cheap way of plying your employees with stimulants. Literally any office with any sense does it.
Not kidding, at my company we actually have to pay for coffee. “You should be earning enough money here to be able to afford a coffee”. It’s not even that great.
What office doesn’t have free coffee?
I occasionally go down to the lobby to get a cup because (the office coffee is mediocre and) it means time to socialize and not stare at a screen. The twenty minutes or so I spend polishing off a cup is on the company’s dime.
A bank I used to work at offered coffee to employees and customers but stopped during the pandemic and never started back up again. Because, you know… money.
Most offices I have seen have really upped their coffee game since the pandemic. Presumably to encourage everyone back in.
Gone are the days of freeze dried instant. Forget those horrid nestle pod machines.
Full automatic espresso machines are the standard now. Being drugged for productivity.
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What office does?
Even ignoring the “making your workplace not be an insufferable place to be” justification, providing free tea and coffee is basically a legal and fairly cheap way of plying your employees with stimulants. Literally any office with any sense does it.
Every single office I’ve worked in. Really, every single workplace I’ve worked in, from summer gigs in random places up until where I work today.
It’s baseline expected from any workplace in Sweden
Every job I’ve ever had in the US too.
Not kidding, at my company we actually have to pay for coffee. “You should be earning enough money here to be able to afford a coffee”. It’s not even that great.