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The Only Blog You Need For Improving Morale in the Workplace

Positive workplace morale isn’t just contagious, it’s a business advantage. “Most employers would agree that keeping employees happy and healthy is intrinsic to a company’s success,” writes Forbes contributor William Craig. Improving the attitudes and enthusiasm of your employees is key to company loyalty; Craig cites studies where organizations who undergo morale initiatives experience 89 percent better retention. Happier employees are more likely to go above and beyond to provide exceptional work, which makes for better profitability for your organization. Read on for a comprehensive crash course on the benefits of boosting workplace morale and research-driven ways to improve your employees’ engagement. 5 Data-Driven Benefits of Improving Morale in the Workplace Years of academic studies in workplaces across industries, including academia and healthcare, reveal that everyone within the enterprise benefits from better culture and morale. These benefits vary, ranging from more creative employees to happier customers and even fewer employee

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NYC’s Premier Office Refreshment Leader Makes Repsly’s List of 100 Buzziest Food & Beverage Brands

As reported back in August, Corporate Essentials was named to Inc. Magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list of the United States’ fastest growing companies amongst all industries. The company has experienced 112% growth over a three year period. Making the list for the sixth time in company history signifies Corporate Essentials’ dedication to being the premier office refreshment service in the NYC/NJ area.   Taking that dedication a step further, Corporate Essentials has been named to Repsly’s 2017 list of 100 Buzziest Food & Beverage Brands. Repsly took the top food and beverage brands named in Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 list and researched further to see which brands generated the most “buzz”.  They looked at each company’s following on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Instagram and measured the conversation generated on these social media platforms. Each company got added points for any creative marketing campaigns, awards, or charitable contributions made in the

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5 Insane (But True) Things About Culture Hacking

Investing in your company culture is just good business. Organizations that make their talent feel valued are more likely to experience better retention, a superior employee brand and more engaged employees. However, just 60 percent of today’s employees feel they have a voice at work. Only 50 percent feel they have more influence than they did five years ago. Nearly everyone can benefit from culture hacking, whether you’re a startup, well-established firm or considering a cultural initiative as part of change management. Read on to learn what culture hacking is, why it matters and five facts to know about real-world firms with winning cultures. What in the (Business) World Is Culture Hacking? The idea of cultural hacking was introduced by Seb Paquet in 2010. Inspired by the tools and methodologies used to hack technology, Paquet proposed the idea of a new way to inspire disruptive change for the better within

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The Epic List of Team Building Activities for Your Employees

Happy, productive and well-synchronized teams of employees aren’t just built overnight. Instead, diverse groups of talent are often nurtured into teams by highly effective employers. If your mental image of team building involves cringe-worthy corporate retreats centered around “trust falls” or dangerous walks over glowing coals, you really should keep reading. Team building definitely shouldn’t be awkward or dangerous and it doesn’t need to involve a rented-out retreat center to be effective.  Team building is the single most important people investment an organization can make, writes Forbes Contributor Brian Scudamore. “It builds trust, mitigates conflict, encourages communication, and increases collaboration.” At Corporate Essentials, we’ve worked hard to develop expertise in just what fuels culture and feeds positive relationships. Read on to learn what real organizations and researchers define as team building that actually works. Don’t Always Make It About Productivity While shared learning and collaboration facilitate team building, your organization

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Why Cold Brew On Tap is The Secret Ingredient to Office Culture

If you’re looking for ways to improve employee happiness, productivity and talent recruitment, your organization is in the majority. 87 percent of today’s CEOs and company leadership are “deeply concerned” about improving their culture and employee engagement. Your organization’s employee culture, including values, community and workspace, plays a real role in your company’s ability to field a creative, productive and engaged talent force. Nearly 60 percent of today’s talent consider non-compensation perks when weighing job offers. These perks can also impact people’s decision to stay or go to work for your competitor. Salary and health insurance matter, but so do your organization’s break room design, refreshments and other cultural factors. Read on to learn why coffee, particularly cold brew on tap, is actually the secret ingredient to positive office culture. Why Cold Brew on Tap Improves Performance In an experiment, a London-based company provided decaf coffee to their employees one

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Break Room Culture: Don’t Miss a Golden Opportunity

What is the ROI on a bottle of Harmless Harvest Coconut Water in an office? Sound like a ridiculous question? Maybe so; but let me take just a few minutes to explain why this might not be as ridiculous as you think. In the office refreshment business (and just about every other business as well), it is very en vogue right now to focus on break room design as part of a solid foundation for a positive company culture. Just a few weeks ago, I sat in a room full of office refreshment operators as a lead designer from the American architecture and design firm Gensler gave a presentation on ways they look to design break rooms in offices in order to improve employee engagement and create more of what Zappos.com’s Tony Hsieh has termed “meaningful collisions” – creating areas where employees from different departments regularly bump into each other.

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What Experts Are Saying About Break Room Design and Culture

While the connection between office design and a healthy, productive work environment is clear, facilities and culture experts are also beginning to unpack the importance of break room design in your company culture. A recent study published in Healthcare Design Magazine revealed that “an extreme break room makeover” at one health facility reduced staff “stress and fatigue” so dramatically that staff turnover-related costs even improved. Among many research-driven organizations, there’s a definitive trend toward investing heavily in break room designs that act as a holistic, healthy retreat for staff members. In the words of workplace strategist Stephanie Heiple, “A break room with some vending machines is not cutting it anymore as a nice place to which employees can retreat.” According to Heiple’s research published in FMLink, companies are wise to consider their ratio of individuals to break spaces, the quality of break room amenities, the selection of color and furniture

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8 Different Creative Morale Boosters That Won’t Break the Bank

Organizations with a highly engaged workforce are, according to Gallup research, more likely to experience higher sales and happier customers. Fostering a work environment that creates happy, productive employees is good for your brand and your bottom line. As organizations discover the connection between talent and profitability, emerging research and new studies are revealing more about the fundamentals of a highly-engaged workplace. At Corporate Essentials, we’re dedicated to using these cutting-edge insights to shape our core values and culture. Deloitte describes culture and engagement as “foundational business issues.” Taking steps on a daily basis toward a more positive office culture could result in a noticeable impact on your HR metrics, including happier employees and fewer voluntary resignations. Fortunately, highly effective approaches to creative morale boosters don’t need to be incredibly high-cost. Your employees may simply need to know that you value their happiness, relationships and desire for work-life balance. Read

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How to Measure Employee Engagement

Your employees show up. They do their jobs. They make coffee in the break room and celebrate donuts left there by an anonymous do-gooder. They sometimes laugh, sometimes not. Some make friends and some do not. They look forward to Friday and rejoice on payday. The morale ebbs and flows, as it does in places of business. Overall, you feel good about your team. Your employees may seem happy, but are they engaged? Do they have a positive, emotional connection to their jobs? An article in the New York Daily News reports that nearly 70% of U.S. employees are miserable at work. According to the story, research conducted by the Gallup Poll suggests that the majority of American’s dislike or feel disengaged to their job. Forbes Magazine explains employee engagement is not the same as employee satisfaction. Forbes defines employee engagement as “the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization

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4 Reasons Why Office Coffee Matters in Your Breakroom

If you are familiar with our blog, you know that office coffee is the core of our world here at Corporate Essentials. Sometimes, given the pressures today’s businesses face, it can be hard to discern how coffee really matters in your break room. Today, our team of coffee service pros has imagined four scenarios to illustrate just how vital great coffee is to your company’s success. That morning you were SO late You woke up late, so there was no time for coffee at home. You missed the bus, so there was no time for coffee along the way. You tried to queue up at the café next door but time was ticking and you grabbed the wrong drink, which would have been fine if you liked soy, but instead you gagged and ended up walking into the office sputtering with a stain on your leg. Arriving in style never

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