The Office Pantry Blog
Our thinking about snacking and office culture as well as insight into the Office Pantry team
What makes a company great to work for?
One that’s changing the world, in a place surrounded by great thinkers being led by a great mind, right? Well you already knew that. Heck it’s a topic that’s been written about so much that it’s now simply a given. We even wrote a guide to picking a perfect employer. But what about the companies who aren’t necessarily changing the world in a sexy way? How can they prove to their staff that they are a great place to work too?
Don’t worry, we aren’t going to say you need to stop installing solar panels and need to become Tesla, we’ll tell you some ways to create an engaged workforce and why it matters.
How to pick the perfect employer?
Finding the right company to work for isn’t easy. We have seen a lot of companies in our time and have seen our fair share of different working environments. And although we have been blessed with having some awesome companies to work with, we have also had a few that didn’t work out.
Google has a food policy. A 50 metre policy. They plan their office designs so that no employee is ever more than 150 metres from a food station.
The tech giant applies this to all of the major offices their 55,000 staff work from. 50 metres, or roughly 150 feet, is about the same distance as half of a football pitch. That’s insane. How on earth do they do, and how do they get them to eat healthy foods?
