It’s no longer enough to put out a tray of hours-old-whatever for people to scoop and run and cafeterias seem like a quaint expensive relic. Today people expect choices and it’s not unreasonable or expensive to give it to them.
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We have people who only eat no meat 80% of the time but every once in a while, just NEED Buffalo Mac & Cheese or a Big Burrito. Our office team ranges from Cross Fitters to Vegans (not mutually exclusive).
It’s only polite, and it does wonders for collaboration and team building. With the Slack App, anytime one teammate is hungry & placing an order, that person can alert a slack channel or the entire company just in case someone else might also be hungry. These orders happen because people eat when they are hungry. He didn’t need a group he was just able to eat. This is Tylor working late and ordering his food at nearly 6pm. Here are 4 folks on the development team ordering for a scheduled working lunch.
Janet and Chandra both continued to work at their desks while they ate. Not everyone sat and ate together and that’s ok. Allie is just back from vacation, so we were able to talk about that. Tyler is new on our team, so this group got to know him a little better. None of us set out to have breakfast together…all we had in common was the fact that we were hungry at the same time. We are calling it ClusterTruck for Teams)Ĭhandra is our office manager, Janet is legal, Chris B is CEO, Chris P is Data Science, Kassie is in sales, Tylor is a developer and Allie is in Customer Service. Below is a screenshot from one of our breakfast orders today: (I should point out these screenshots are from our new Slack App. Many meals are ordered as part of scheduled meetings among teams, but more often than not food is being shared by folks who wouldn’t normally have any reason to get together. Almost daily there is food coming in mid to late afternoon for people who ate breakfast and skipped normal lunchtime or had something else going on during lunch (workouts, meetings)Īd hoc groups form up. There can be up to 4 lunch deliveries at various times mid-day.
There is always a breakfast or two beginning at 9am. Rather than one meal a day coming to our office we have food being delivered up to 8 times a day. Here are three behaviors that we have developed I think are interesting and are contributing to greater collaboration and high employee satisfaction.
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The allowance is all through ClusterTruck of course, but what’s been fascinating to me is how we use it.īy way of level-set, we are about 25 people in our office consisting of Software Developers, Customer Service, Marketing, Sales, Accounting and HR. What we’ve discovered in our office is that simply providing a food allowance is the best solution. It’s becoming more difficult for a central authority to dictate food without leaving a segment of the employee base feeling alienated and not considered. Vegetarian, Vegan, Paleo, no-carb, healthy or comfort food. Who said noon is the only time an employee can eat? What if I’d prefer breakfast? What if I work out at lunch? Or get hungry at 11? Or 2:35?įinally, there is the issue of dietary restrictions or preferences. Time also plays a role in employee satisfaction with company food offerings. Is forcing these people to stand in line & artificially force interaction the best strategy? They’re busy, they are multi-tasking or maybe the just want to catch up on their social media. Neither of these solutions really thrilled anyone, and with today’s environment these solutions are starting to show their age.Īccording to The Future of Lunch, 62% of workers choose to eat alone at their desk. Organizations have been aware for decades that the availability of food in the workplace does amazing things as it relates to both productivity and collaboration.įor the past 50 years companies tried to address food in the office by providing company cafeterias or scheduled catering orders.
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