Intel resumes free coffee and tea for its employees — $100-million-per-year program partly reinstated to boost employee morale
Intel resumes free coffee and tea for its employees — $100-million-per-year program partly reinstated to boost employee morale
Fresh fruits remain out of reach in the breakroom, though.
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.
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!
As it should be. If Intel is spending that much, that better be Yorkshire Gold.
"Some of these include free fruit and beverages, fitness coaches in the gym, a sabbatical after four years with the company, and the grounding of the Intel Air Shuttle that flies between California, Arizona, and Oregon."
I think, if anything, one of those things was main driver of the cost here... You make this fucking list with a straight face? But you go get rid of the tea bags to discipline labor, you fucking cowards.
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.
Fucking real? Every tech job I've ever had has had free everything! Everything! Snacks, nuts, power bars, trail mix, yogurts, eggs, cereal, cappuccinos, beer, wine, you name it. Intel thinks they're going to be competitive with some free coffee and tea, which is free at even the lowest level office jobs? Get real!
Dear wage slave: the free snacks (and the private jet) are costing too much, we need to cut back because we are struggling.
Going forward I'll refer to Intel as a government owned company. That's their future anyways.
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.
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!
How many employees does Intel have!? We have a free coffee program that I manage at my work and it works out to $35k USD per year. Granted we only have about 1200 employees, but scale it up to 120,000 and it’s still 3.5mil.
The headline isn't telling a full story
Some of these include free fruit and beverages, fitness coaches in the gym, a sabbatical after four years with the company, and the grounding of the Intel Air Shuttle that flies between California, Arizona, and Oregon.
$100M a year is about $274k per day on food and drinks.
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.
Have you seen the price of half'n half? I bet that is where the budget goes.
Gotta refinance a mortgage to afford half'n'half or milk.
The other half is tariffs! 🤪
That's just a drop in the buchet in stock buybacks per year
US taxpayer pays for both!
Thanks losers!
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
100m split per head would result about 800 bucks per year...
I bet most slaves would prefer to take the cash lol