The coffee … more productive than people think
Posted by admin | Under Uncategorized, finance, life, online, opinions Tuesday Oct 20, 2009A waste of time, those ten minutes than most workers agree over a cup of coffee? Far from it, if we believe the results of a study conducted by the institutes and LH2 Market Vision on behalf of the professional division of Nespresso. We learn especially that beyond the relaxation that is the coffee break (for 88% of respondents), it is also a powerful tool for enhancing cohesion within a team (after 75% of respondents) and even the best way to ease tensions (cited by 65% of people). The human resources officials themselves acknowledge (79%) that this pause creates a nice moment to limit tension within a team.
It does not take more to make the study of a small black management tool "stealth".This time informal, relaxed and pleasant would more easily establish dialogue and reach consensus on better terms. As employees, they are 81% think that time is essential to keep a clear mind and leave more effectively to its work. Without awaiting the results of this study, some companies have chosen to treat their particular cafeteria into a vital forum for the exchange. Meeting-place for employees of services and different hierarchical levels, the coffee would find that we did not try. Many innovations are born and following discussions between employees who do not encounter in everyday life but find themselves over coffee.
The only fly in this almost idyllic picture, the human resource managers are significantly less convinced that the employees must side of espresso in the morning as a tool for human resource management. Thus, only 11% of managers believe that the time coffee is essential to convey messages, while employees are three times more likely to be in complete agreement with this notion. Nespresso, which hopes to increase its presence in the business with his occupation, in many rely on this argument.
We also learn in this study that are on average 3 coffees are consumed each day in the workplace. For 77% of employees it is a ritual, without surprise morning coffee wins the most votes (44%) to those who follow the lunch break (40%) and the afternoon (23 %).