They probably used to. Then the accountants got involved and removed that expense.
Along with everything else they could think of too.
Free coffee for employees? Not from about 2 decades ago... ;)
Along with everything else they could think of too.
Free coffee for employees? Not from about 2 decades ago... ;)
They finally made coffee free when the sales guys said it was too embarassing.
Is this a joke that went over my head, or are they seriously making their employees pay for coffee?
Yep, it's as brain damaged an idea as it seems, and yep it's also an accurate depiction of how little they think of their employee productivity.
The money wasted on the employees dumping their own bins probably offsets the money saved on cleaning staff directly by an order of magnitude, not to mention the indirect losses of people being annoyed/pissed and leaving.
The team I was in had no money to expense so for the first few months I worked using just the company provided laptop with no peripherals, and had to wait for someone leaving to be able to grab their external monitor and a laptop stand. Team/Company morale was very low in my time there.