Office Snacks In 2022: How Much Employees Value Them.

At Connect Vending, we provide a wide range of snack vending machines that can be tailored to your business’ needs. When you buy a machine from us, it can be fully customised to not only blend into your office’s interior, but will  also come equipped with the latest technological innovations. It means that you can enjoy all your favourite snacks without having to leave the office.

Having a satisfied and happy workforce is critical to maintaining and increasing employee retention, as well as for attracting the best talent with great food and drink benefits. Our latest blog looks at how much employees value snacks in the office, both for retaining staff and improving health.

Providing office snacks to employees is an inexpensive office perk that can bring major benefits to your workplace. By offering a range of options including chocolate bars, breakfast snacks and dried fruit, your employees are likely to stay in the office to enjoy their favourite snacks. 

If an employee goes to the kitchen to pick up their favourite snack bar, they’re more likely to bump into their fellow colleagues for a chat, encouraging discussions and helping keep everyone’s social energy high. Everyone who’s worked in an office environment will know how important this social aspect is to keeping happy, motivated and energised, and happy staff are productive staff.

When it comes to employee retention, office snacks have a unique role to play for employees. A survey conducted by Zerocater found that 88% of employees considered employers providing snacks to be important to them. The survey also pointed out that 41% would consider leaving an employer if they failed to provide office snacks as an office perk.

Availability of quality office snacks, as well as drinks, can be the difference between a person accepting or declining a job offer to work at your company. It’s important when providing snacks in the office that you consider the demands of the millennial workforce – the unique demands of this generation means that they prioritise happiness in their role over salary, and quality food and beverage provisions can tick several boxes.

Healthy snacks in the office can improve not just your employees performance, but also their health. It’s important that you have a consistent supply of energy so that you can power through your daily tasks without hitting the dreaded mid-afternoon slump. Skipping meals during your working day can contribute to a decrease in performance levels.

As much of our time is spent at work, it can be hard to get the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. Having a variety of healthy snacks outside of chocolate bars and crisps such as greek yoghurt and fresh fruit can ensure that you get plenty of healthy fats and protein in your diet.

If your employees are consistently consuming healthy snacks at work, then they’ll be more capable of producing high quality work on a daily basis.

At Connect Vending, we understand how important it is to provide a wide variety of office snacks for your workforce. Having a snack vending machine that’s easily accessible in your workplace means that employees won’t have to bring their own snacks into the office.

Once you’ve bought your machine from us, we can also take care of maintaining and replenishing it with your favourite snacks with our fully managed vending solution. We take the work out of your hands, with our expert retail merchandising team managing all the cleaning and stocking.

Providing office snacks for your employees can bring multiple benefits to your company. Improving employee relationships, boosting productivity and a happier workforce are just a few of the benefits that come with having snacks in the office.

When it comes to upgrading your office snacks, we can come in and help stock your snack vending machine. Our snack vending solutions can be tailored around your employees so that you have a productive and healthy workforce. If you have any questions about the type of office snacks we offer with our vending solutions, speak to our team today.