Lunch at Work

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Work pays £12 per day for lunch through Deliveroo; they have just announced this amount will increase to £15 per day.

I can not say how happy I am. While it is a taxable benefit, I hardly buy dinner these days. I have a gastric sleeve, so i just eat a little and then save my lovely lunch for dinner. Honestly, saving me around £120 plus a month.

We also get a lovely breakfast on a Monday to welcome us back to the office, a fully stocked kitchen with every snack you can imagine and paid for team drinks every month. There are only 50 of us in the office.

These little perks really make being in the office 5 days a week a little more bearable (work in facilities, so we have to be in). What's the best little perk your job offers?

I am a nurse in the NHS. We don’t even get tea and coffee provided anymore. Best perk…? Right now I’m jealous to be sure 😢

mine was unlimted tea and coffee as long as we had milk (not always standard order or if the order ran out.) sometimes the food truck but we had to pay for any food from it

We get tea and coffee manager is quite nice n buying cakes on team meeting days and pancakes on pancake day. I have worked in places previously where the company would pay £10 per person towards Christmas meal but my current workplace doesn't do that. £15 per day for lunch is insane.

If anyone deserves a free lunch, it's nurses! 💐

We get unlimited tea, coffee and theres usually biscuits in the tin!

£15 a day? Where do you work! They must be doing well

if ours had biscuits they would soon vanish

I used to work for a guy who let us have any food we wanted delivered to our desk by staff for breakfast, lunch and snacks. And unlimited alcohol after 6pm. Unfortunately he also wouldn't give us any breaks at all. Not even five minutes and the working day was 11 hours plus?!

Absolutely nothing free, local government, we have to provide tea/coffee, milk for volunteers!

sounds like investment banking type industry

Tea, coffee etc (surely this is standard in private sector) and celebratory drinks at end of period. We also have a big black tie dinner and dance with a free bar every Christmas, similar at year end (summer) and as senior leadership I get an additional event and hotel stay / spa.

Haha no. More like the film/advertising/TV industry. I'd be too thick to work in banking!

thats outragous!

unlimited tea, fruit teas, hot chocolate, squash, coffee etc (I thought this was pretty standard in most office environments)

Bread is always provided for toast as well as spread and jams.
Food in the kitchen cupboards but its mostly basics such as tins of soup, beans, potato's, noodle pots, dried fruit, fruit etc

Sometimes there are biscuits but they are always gone very quickly and they only replace them once a month, just basic rich tea, custard creams etc

Tampax and pads in the bathrooms.

They pay for our works xmas do as a whole, 3 courses and we get drink tokens for a couple of drinks on the night too.

Normally get a couple of bottles of wine throughout the year as a thanks everyone, think they are left over from events though😂

Biggest bonus... I send the odd letter via their pre paid envelopes ha ha

ill admit i didnt realise they were as intense

holy trinity

Jeez I could not work at your office. I’d be the size of a bus.

NHS and nothing for us. Need to buy own tea, milk etc and pay for our own microwave to heat lunches.

I’ve never worked in an office where tea & coffee were provided, let alone anything else!

Biggest perk in my job? I WfH 100%, saving me £300+ a month and 3 hours a day commuting into London. Plus lunches are cheap and easy from home, and no big coffee shop bill. Plus I save on smart workwear.

My previous office provided free tea and coffee too (nothing else) so I always thought it was standard in most office based environments.

I also only go into the office one day a week and work the rest from home, all equipment provided for by the company.

Nothing here either. DH gets £11 to spend on lunch, the more money you earn it seems, the more perks you get.

Absolutely zilch. No tea or coffee and if I'm in any of our many offices, I have to take everything including a mug with me if I want a hot drink which I have to do as if I'm away overnight, expenses aren't great so buying coffee shop drinks eats in to the expenses too much.

I think it's because people are so desperate to get into certain industries they just exploit people. I hope it's illegal now to not give breaks.

Work for local government. My only perk is my pension (that I also contribute 6.5% of my salary too every month). Nothing else - no bonus, no tea & coffee provided, xmas do is paid for by everyone who wants to attend and cannot be held in works time etc etc.