Food Glorious Food
05-12-2016
December, tis’ the season to really start thinking about food. A whole month dedicated to one big family meal.
So what does that mean for the workplace?
Left over Toffee Pennies & mini Mars Bars, half a mince pie left out for a week. Team dinners, lunch together, chatting, talking, laughing.
Whatever time of year, food brings people together. This is as true at work as it is at home. A comfortable kitchen table is the hub of a homely house; the same is true in an office. Creating somewhere encouraging informal interaction can bring huge benefits to a business.
There is great value in creating spaces that people choose to spend time in, choosing to stay within the workplace rather than mooching around the shops or sitting in a café. This ‘sticky workplace’ concept offers people the opportunity to choose to talk to colleagues they wouldn’t usually speak to, building relationships outside departmental boundaries and sharing ideas.
A central kitchen & dining area away from the concentration space will create community hub that goes on to be used in a variety of ways once the plates have been cleared.
Coffee catch ups, concentrative power breaks or team lunches, the kitchen diner is being used as a destination for informal working, meeting and relaxing in a community environment and is more likely to be a destination creating serendipitous meetings and new relationships than more formal spaces.
So create a space for people to eat, drink and be merry, but not just for Christmas.
