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Believe it or not, the average worker spends nearly 50 hours a year purchasing beverages at the café during the workday.
A survey of 2,000 on-site employees found it takes about 16 minutes to leave one’s desk, buy a drink and return. And with an average of three trips a week, employees end up losing more than an entire work week every year.
Coffee (66%) is the most popular first drink of the day, participants also prefer cold drinks such as iced coffee (47%), water (45%) and flavored water (30%).
Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of multi-beverage system maker Flavia, the survey also found there may be a link between drink preference and productivity.
75% of coffee drinkers need two or more cups of coffee to feel productive, with nearly a quarter (24%) noting Mondays were the day of the week they needed the most coffee.
Carolyn McArdle and Cort Johnson talked about it on the Morning Breeze. Listen to it here: