Office Cake Culture - Good or Bad?
Research suggests it's time to rethink office cake culture. Having sweet treats around your working environment can change an employee's eating habits and makes workplace environments less healthy, potentially undermining return on investment of workplace health and wellbeing spend.
A key finding found that despite its popularity and high prevalence, most respondents said the ideal frequency for office cake would be once a week or less.
The presence of cake and the social interaction associated with it led it to be eaten whenever it was available. Although cake is considered to be a good way to bring colleagues together, often it is placed on a desk or in a kitchen for people to help themselves to rather than forming part of a social gathering.
Most people find sweet treats hard to resist at the best of times, admitting that they are not always hungry, but snack out of boredom. Having temptation within the workplace will make it harder for workers to eat healthily at work.