4 ways to improve workshop culture with food
There’s no single recipe to creating or maintaining a great workplace culture but there is, perhaps, a secret ingredient every workshop should try: food.
Famously, companies like Google and Facebook provide free food to their staff. It’s available all day, every day. If you get hungry you simply climb off your beanbag, take the slippery dip down to the canteen and chow down on whatever is bubbling away in the bain-marie. These companies do it because it keeps staff happy, it keeps them productive, and it keeps them onsite. But there’s more to it than that. Anthropologists will tell you eating food is about much more than just survival. Eating food is an incredibly social thing. Food is almost always shared. While the act of eating is a basic need for survival, it’s also something we tend to do together. When we share food with someone we’re telling them ‘you are safe; you are secure; you belong here’. That makes food a potentially very powerful tool to help create or maintain an excellent culture in any workplace. Here are four food-related ideas you might like to leverage with your own team.
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