How do you ascertain this prior to accepting an offer? Have you actually turned down a job due to lack of coffee? I’m just curious.
We have access to several cafeterias and coffee stands. I bring my own and make it in an individual french press.
We’ve got it pretty good - we’ve got a Nespresso machine, which actually makes a pretty decent cappucino, with the pods and the milk provided by the company. There’s only 5 of us in the office and we all thrive on the stuff, no-one more so than the boss, so he’s happy to provide for all.
Although I usually buy my first cup of the day at the cafe next door, because I’m not really awake (by which I mean pleasant) until I’ve had that first cup, and also because of the laziness. Yes, I’m too lazy in the morning to use a Nespresso machine, you wanna make something of it? Can you wait until I’ve had my coffee?
Well, for one, just about every time I’ve waited for an interview, the receptionist has either offered me coffee or directed me to the kitchen or coffee nook. So there’s that.
But beyond that, I see the presence of free coffee as an indicator of the office’s general attitude toward its workers. If the bosses can’t even be bothered to provide their subordinates with coffee - the bare minimum of care for their personal welfare - then you can be pretty sure that they don’t respect them as human beings.
And no, I’ve never turned down a job due to lack of coffee. The one time I was at an office that didn’t offer coffee, it was obviously a crappy work environment, and I pretty much threw the interview.
Well, I mentioned that federal agencies are prohibited by law from offering free coffee to employees. Now that I think about it, you have something there. The employer in this case is the American people, and, lately anyway, the public seems to have a very abusive and contemptuous attitude towards public servants. Why else would Congress actually pass a law prohibiting public funds from being spent on coffee for government workers? It’s petty and cruel.
From the “boss” end, I have to say I agree.
In addition, I used to always keep a case of beer on hand. Then I hired someone who was 19, and I stopped that perk.
Factory in Spain, also the home offices of a worldwide corporation. There are coffee coin-operated machines in rest areas. Direct employees can get a gizmo they can use to pay, with the price subsidized; they also have access to a very cheap cafeteria. The machine dispenses a score of products: a bunch of varieties of coffee in both regular a decaf, a couple of infusions, cocoa.
In Spain, my experience is that places large enough for it will have the coin-operated machines; small factories will have “American coffeemakers”; an important perk in many office buildings is fully-subsidized coffee (the coffee machines display “credit 999”). Coffee is an essential element of Spanish economics.
IT field, USA, small office with three guys in it. One cup of coffee in the morning for each of us.
I bought a coffee brewer (water in resevoir gets heated and then dumped into the grounds in a filter basket) and donated it to the cause. I will abandon it in place when I lose this job. The pot is marked for 10 cups, but really it takes two cups (as marked) to fill one standard coffee mug. I brew a half pot, so there is not much wasted. I pay for the water and filters, one of the other guys buys the coffee grounds.
I work in a small office, so you’re on your own for coffee. I have a Senseo single cup brewer in my office and one of the others has a little drip machine in hers.
I checked the first three because they’re all relevant. My department has a Keurig plus a couple choices of coffees (plus a few kinds of tea in single-serving tea bags, and cocoa) and disposable cups, sugar/artificial sweetener/stirring sticks. I don’t know how other departments handle it.
Our location (a medical center) also has coffee vending machines, a few coffee shops within the complex, coffee dispensers in the cafeteria, and a couple coffee shops nearby.
I chose all of the above. We have a drip coffee maker and are provided with all the free, terrible coffee we like. We also have a cafeteria and coffee shop in the building. There’s also a coffee vending machine. And we have a Keurig but the cups are not provided so if you want to use it you have to purchase your own. Cream and sugar can be snagged from the cafeteria but it’s not encouraged, so most people bring bottles of gross flavored creamer and keep it in the fridge. And even if you put your name on your bottle be prepared to have everyone drink from it!
We are provided the following at work for free:
Coffee
Creamer (regular and French Vanilla)
Sugar
Tea (caffeine and caffeine free, hot or cold)
Apple juice
Orange Juice
Various flavored waters
Various sodas (Coke, diet, Dr. Pepper, Sprite)
V-8
Hot chocolate
Popcorn (in both big and personal sizes)
And depending on what’s at the store, pretzels, cheetos, goldfish crackers, trail mix, etc.
Of course someone has to go get it all, but it’s not left for a plebe to do; a manager handles it, and it’s charged to the company’s dime.
Our company has coffee pots in the break rooms that brew regular, decaf, and a “strong blend” of regular. These are urns that you put the grounds in with a filter, then plug into a base that heats and adds the water. Then the urns can be set aside, and act as a thermos. I don’t know pricing as I don’t drink coffee.
The government office I support has various coffee clubs that are employee sponsored and funded, with posted donation fees for visitors who aren’t regulars. They use residential coffee brewers. They also have a Starbucks in the on site cafeterias.
We have the free k-cups in our office, with few different choices of coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. The office also supplies sugar, other sweeteners, and cups.
Milk is left up to the individual employees, because everyone who takes it likes something slightly different (skim, cream, half and half, that non-dairy flavored stuff) and it was just too much to try to provide it communally.
There is a cafeteria in our building in case you want a fancier (or at least more specialized) beverage.
This reminds me that earlier in my career, I worked in a large office, about 60 people, and free coffee service was provided. Then, I was part of a small unit that split off from the big group, about 12 people, and we were moved to a new office. Of that 12, only one person drank coffee, and that person wasn’t very involved with the actual move (by his choice). As we were setting up the office, it didn’t occur to anyone else to get a coffee maker. None of us were coffee drinkers. I found out years later that the lone coffee drinker in the office nursed a deep and bitter grudge about how HE WAS CRUELLY DENIED HIS FREE COFFEE. Naturally, he never said anything to address this …