Your office is already amazing – people come to work and do a great job providing ideas, products and services to your clientele.
Everyone seems to get along, no one really has any complaints but there just seems to be something missing.
If you are unsure what it might be, hold on to your hat because the team here at Corporate Essentials is about to blow your mind with a simple, nay obvious, solution to the “adequate” office environment in which you are currently working. Today we are going to show you five ways that providing your team with the best office coffee will elevate your overall game and make your business the best in town.
1. Hydration
Many of the benefits your office can reap from having the best office coffee stem from having happy, healthy employees. And a huge part of employee health in the workplace is adequate hydration. Did you know that mild dehydration can lead to everything from a generalized mental fog to migraines?
Studies have shown that minimal dehydration can cause a dip in short-term memory, overall attention and even math skills. What is worse, if your employees are coming to work in the morning in a dehydrated state, they are far less likely to make up the difference and become adequately hydrated once they are at their desks.
But fear not, providing your teams with access to a raft of amazing beverages that will encourage them to take in the liquids their bodies need to not just survive, but thrive, is easier than you might think. The real magic happens when you take the time to educate your team about the benefits of proper hydration – thereby encouraging them to get involved in the break room area, trying new drinks and taking part in the best office coffee culture around.
2. Productivity
Now that you understand the importance of hydration, consider the overall productivity boost that simply having a solid selection of office coffee and other beverages available in the break room brings. Now we are going to knock that up a notch.
You see, by bringing coffee into the office, you are adding fuel to the collective creative fire of your team. Sure, it is true that caffeine stimulates, but the wider impact of bringing the best office coffee into your workplace is that you are giving your team something to do together that is not necessarily directly related to that presentation that you need to review by two o’clock.
And the beauty of office coffee is that by bringing them together over a completely different medium, you are encouraging them to interact more, which will inevitably speed up the work that has to be done on that presentation for two o’clock.
3. Convenience
One of the worst things about working with a diverse group of people is having to round up their coffee orders for a meeting, impromptu early start or one of those unfortunate days when everyone ends up working through their lunch.
Take a step back and think about the time wasted in the process of going from desk to desk to collate the orders, sending one (or multiple) people up the road to pick up the massive order, waiting around, carrying it back and inevitably dealing with the one or two orders that are not correct.
Your people have easily lost two working hours in the name of getting something as mundane as coffee. If your break room had awesome coffee available on demand, that time could be spent tending to that pesky two o’clock presentation. Better still, your staff would be able to shave a few minutes off their commute, eliminate some of the time spent out of the office during the day looking for a mid-afternoon pick-me-up and save some money.
4. Team Involvement
One of the greatest things that bringing the best office coffee into your workplace can do for your team is make each and every person feel like they are truly valued. On one hand, you have the actual cost savings that people will experience by having access to great coffee at the point of need.
On the other, you have the opportunity to provide a unique, special perk to your workforce – and it is interactive to boot. You can have initial coffee tastings to allow your team input into the choice of office coffee vendor. You can also have an ongoing series of special tasting events that encourage your teams to interact with one another, as well as providing their input to the vendor and management regarding the coffee selections on offer.
You can take this a step further and have a rolling series of competitions, allowing the winning team or individual to choose their favorite roast for a month or more. The numerous and varied ways you can use the best office coffee as an incentive to cultivate a better environment for two-way communication are limitless.
5. Better Office Culture
Each of the elements we have touched on today come together to provide the ultimate perk of giving your team access to the best office coffee in town – a better office culture. Company culture is a huge component of overall workplace satisfaction, and today’s employees are more than willing to move from one company to another in the pursuit of an office culture that speaks to their personal ethos and matches their vision for how things ought to be.
A few things that stand out among all great office cultures are open communication, employees that feel valued and perks that offer convenience to workers. Great office coffee works to facilitate all three of these, which in turn can elevate your workplace culture in big ways.
Whether you are looking for a new office coffee company, hoping to make the most of a new break room area in your building or just tired of settling for “acceptable” coffee in the office, the team at Corporate Essentials would love to talk to you today. Bringing the best office coffee into businesses like yours throughout New York is what we excel at, but don’t just take our word for it. Contact one of our coffee experts to discuss the ways the best office coffee can make your great team incredible.
