Intel resumes free coffee and tea for its employees — $100-million-per-year program partly reinstated to boost employee morale

Coffee will continue until morale improves.

Employers figured out years ago that caffeine has excellent ROI for productivity. (Amphetamines are probably a close second, but we won’t talk about that right now.)

For Intel to cut basic morale boosters was just pure silliness.

Counterpoint: 100 million for coffee in a year sounds astronomical, even for the 120k employees intel has. Like, what are they paying for, doordash starbucks?

For $100M/yr why not start your own coffee subsidiary?

That’s $3.33 per employee per work day, assuming 50 5-day weeks per year. Seems a bit high to me, but not exorbitant. If the figure included things that they’re not reinstating (like free fruit) then that would make sense.

$2.5 a day per employee? not too bad I feel

The headline is bullshit. The 100 million is for all food/drink services, not just coffee.

and then we’ll yank that shit again so our board can be paid more money that they don’t need, and can never spend!

From tiny companies of five people, to huge companies of five hundred thousand, I have never worked in an office where you couldn’t get a brew.

But then, I am British. Take the tea away and it’s riots (or at the least some quiet complaining)

I wish people would drink more tea and less lead around here.

As someone who works in an electronics plant, there are definitely days where I just crave a nice refreshing slurp from the leaded solder pot.

Worked for an American Fortune 100 company that had a community funded coffee station when I started. Got a tiny styrofoam cup of Folgers coffee for $0.25. Eventually they had stations that provided free coffee, but that was years later.

Does this company start with I and end with BM

Nah, the NSA takes very good care of its employees. They get free everything.

As it should be. If Intel is spending that much, that better be Yorkshire Gold.

Where I work used to have free coffee and tea until a newspaper made a story about how we were lazy and spent all our time drinking coffee and wasting money so my organization fully removed complimentary beverages ever since. The floor warden walks around with a bucket collecting change and donations to get new hand soap in the kitchen. It’s so annoying.

That’s such garbage!

Have company that completely depends on people using their brains to solve problems.

Give these people free stimulants for years so you can extract extra value out of their brains.

Stop giving them stimulants.

Brain workers are now cranky and stimulant deprived. Surely this will make them more effective…

Give brain workers stimulants again, because fucking obviously.

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

$100M a year is about $274k per day on food and drinks.

Have you seen the price of half’n half? I bet that is where the budget goes.

The other half is tariffs! 🤪

Gotta refinance a mortgage to afford half’n’half or milk.

That’s like only one yacht per year for the exec managing the program though, try being more considerate for our elite next time you critize something.

That is like $3 a day per employee.

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