There are a number of things that stand between your business and success, a solid relationship with an office coffee delivery service should never be one of them.
Today we invite you to discover four great examples of an office that could benefit from a better office coffee delivery service.
The key lesson we hope to teach today is that engaging a great team of office coffee delivery experts is a key move in keeping your office atmosphere productive, your staff nourished and your business booming.
The two o’clock slump
Most of us can get rolling in the morning, a cup of coffee gets our synapses firing and we are well on our way to a successful morning. We can get through a couple of meetings, file a sarcastic TPS report and still have enough gumption to get ourselves to the café for a sandwich with the new guy on the third floor. What drags a lot of us down is the dreaded two o’clock slump.
While there are countless books and advice columns out there trying to encourage us to get through it by drinking more water, trying a special energy drink, eating celery or doing yoga, these things all have one notion in common. What is the magic stuff that fends off a two o’clock slump?
Truth be told it is not just one thing, it is a combination of three things: motion, hydration and interaction. A well-stocked break room provides an incentive for employees feeling the onset of the slump to get out of their chairs and get moving. Once there, your friendly local coffee delivery service will have provided a bounty of refreshing treats to improve focus, through the magic of hydration and having a quick laugh with a colleague.
Lack of office community
Sometimes it really is difficult to see beyond the three-sided gray cube where you do the majority of your work staring at a relatively small screen. One of the best things a well-stocked break room can do for your staff – and the feeling of community in your office – is serve as a beacon that lures people away from the monotony of their desktop. While we all know that it is bad for our health to sit and stare at the screen all day, very little is said about the culture that working so diligently can foster.
If you step outside your little cube for a minute and put yourself into the shoes of a new person arriving in the building, you will very quickly understand how difficult it is to navigate the faceless environment that can grow without a solid foundation for office community.
You walk into the marketing department and instead of seeing a few smiling faces interspersed with flashy marketing collateral, you see the backs of a whole lot of heads. While being able to check out the highlights, balding patterns and perms of all those new co-workers might be fascinating to a hairdresser, it really is not helpful to Lucy who moved here from Minnesota last month and is trying to make some solid connections in the area.
Carry on through the office, like Lucy would have to – entering departments and meeting faceless folks so buried in their business that they may not even notice her walking through the room. Did we mention that she is stunning, hilarious and could go five rounds debating with Neil deGrasse Tyson? No? Well, she is. And you just missed her, because there is nothing in the office that inspires you to engage with your environment.
In an office where someone has taken the time to establish a well-stocked break room, you would have been far more likely to look up, say hello and notice Lucy. If you are curious as to how that works, it really is quite simple:
- Nourishment is bonding: there is something innately communal about sharing food and drinks with someone.
- Coffee creates conversation: whether it is good coffee or bad coffee, is always something to talk about.
- Community is organic: with a little to eat and drink, and something to talk about, you are likely to find that the culture in your office takes on a life of its own.
No local coffee shops
Maybe your New Jersey office is in one of those areas where there are limited resources available for catering and refreshments. This means your staff have to actively seek out places to get a cup of coffee, snacks or lunch on their way to the office – and if they for whatever reason can not do so on their way to work, they will have to take a longer break outside the office to find the refreshment they require.
If the legendary two o’clock slump hits, your team will find themselves marooned in a coffee desert. So it is extra out of pocket expenses and extra time away from desks for them – and lackluster productivity due to increased distractions for you.
On the other hand, by establishing a solid relationship with one of New Jersey’s top office coffee delivery services, you can create a more fertile environment for your entire workforce despite the absence of local coffee roasters.
You run out of coffee before anyone can buy more
There is plenty to be said for thinking ahead and being prepared. There are also enough jobs to do in the office already, and remembering to stop on your way into work and pick up a new bottle of creamer and a bag of beans from that roaster everyone loves should not be on your to-do list.
What happens if you forget? You find yourself most of the way to the office and have to double back to pick up whatever coffee you can grab close to the office, eventually showing up a bit late with coffee that is less than ideal and no one is happy.
It will not matter if the roaster was shut or if you missed a train on the way, there will be people who are either missing out on their coffee or receiving it late, and neither of those make a great way to start the day. Worse still is the universe where you are setting everything up for a pitch at ten o’clock and you hit the staff room to brew a pot of coffee only to realize that the early morning crowd have finished all but half a pot’s worth of beans in their caffeinated frenzy.
This means someone has to order in and blow the meeting budget; zip out to a shop and hope to pick up good quality coffee beans; or come up with a real good reason to offer only water to your visitors.
This is the true beauty of spending the time and finding a great office coffee delivery service. Once you have done the groundwork to establish the basics, you will never find yourself having to scramble to cover refreshments for a meeting again.
To find out more about how the team at Corporate Essentials can put close to two decades of office coffee delivery experience to work for you, contact our team today.
