The coffee is expensive for companies

 

British study amounted to 416 pounds sterling (490 euros) per employee per year and the financial impact of tea or coffee break. A ritual which would cost more to businesses than the cigarette break.
The coffee makes it less productive employees? According to a study conducted by the polling institute Opinion Online * for the manufacturer of water dispensers T6, the British would lose 24 minutes of work each day with rifle tea and coffee breaks. Four out of ten employees or are preparing to find a hot drink at least twice a day, while five people took the time once a day. On a professional career, this is 188 days and 21 hours to wait for the kettle heats up, the study calculates.
For employers, these moments of relaxation at a cost, the survey concludes. The loss of productivity due to breaks tea and coffee is encrypted to 416 pounds (490 euros) per employee per year. The study is based on the fact that the year has about 253 working days in Britain and the average salary of 26,000 pounds (30,600 euros). A total cost of 14,500 pounds (17,000 euros) per year for a company of 35 employees, or 250,000 pounds (295,000 euros) for a group employing 600 people.
A cost of nearly $ 12 billion per year
"It's amazing to think that the average tea break is almost 190 days over a career," says Agneta Sjodin, marketing director of T6, the British publication Real Business. "Employees who are waiting with the kettle wasting his time to their business and cost him a fortune in lost productivity," she adds. Especially in the end, this coffee costs five times more expensive than the cigarette break, is Real Business. According to a study by the London School of Economics for the British social security, the NHS, employees who smoke cost 2.1 billion pounds (2.3 billion euros) per year for their companies. Drinkers of tea or coffee, them, costing 10.8 billion pounds (11.7 billion euros), according to calculations of Online Opinion.
Often singled out, the coffee retains many defenders. Cary Cooper, professor of psychology at Lancaster University Management School, these moments of relaxation are essential to compensate for a life at work more sedentary and often spent at a computer. "People should be more active and see other people," he explains to the BBC News Magazine. According to him, companies should break even arrange morning twice a week.
Tool of cohesion within the company
In France, a study in late 2009 by the institutes and LH2 Market Vision on behalf of the professional division shows that the Nespresso coffee break can be more productive than we think. French employees consume an average of three coffees a day at their workplace. Beyond a moment of relaxation, coffee represents 75% of the 406 executives and 471 employees surveyed an effective tool to enhance cohesion within the team and for 65% of them, it is even the best way to ease tensions. A utility that 79% recognize the human resource managers. However, only 11% of managers believe that the time coffee is essential for communication within the company.
* Survey conducted from November 8 to 14, 2010 among 1,000 British adults