….Free Food/Drink in the Office is Bad
1. For the most part, anything that your employer provides for free is unhealthy - soft drinks, chips, pretzels and candy just load you up with sugar and salt all day long. Of course, it’s cheaper to supply these things than having to pay for fruit, juices and vegetables.
2. Since free food and drinks are always around, it is impossible to ignore or resist them. Under normal circumstances, chocolate-covered pretzels would have little or no appeal but if they’re staring you in the face every time you go into the kitchen, your defenses eventually break down. Next thing you know, you’ve gobbled half the box.
3. It ruins your appetite for regular meals. Why eat lunch after you’ve had a pile of pretzels, some jujubes and an ice tea (complete with eight teaspoons of sugar!) as a mid-morning “snack”. And you know that dinner won’t look as appealing when the late-afternoon munchies have caused you to consume a bag of in-office chips.
4. Free food and drink are just more ways to kill productivity. It’s bad enough leaving the office for coffee and/or lunch, spending time on personal e-mail, eBay, Facebook and Twitter. But having food and drink in the office wastes even more time as you shuttle back and forth between your desk and the kitchen.
