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Make the office tea round fair – with a Big Swap to Cafédirect!

posted at 3:52pm, 24 Feb 10 by Siobhan [ 0 comments ]

Are you the person who always makes the tea or coffee at work? Almost six million British workers claim they couldn’t get through the day without a cuppa. But the humble brew has become the cause for some unlikely battles between colleagues.

We recently conducted a survey of 3,000 workers and found that each week, female workers make more than three times as many cups of tea for male colleagues as men make for them.

Two thirds of men (62 percent) regularly invent bogus reasons to avoid making workmates a brew, while over a quarter (28 percent) admit to sneaking off to make themselves a cuppa on the sly. But women aren’t entirely blameless. Almost half (46 percent) admit to using the office brew as a chance to bunk off  work, while a quarter (24 percent) reveal their apparent act of generosity is  a cover for sharing office gossip.

The survey also  showed that 91 percent of workers would like their company to offer Fairtrade tea. In response, we are aksing companies to make the Big Swap to Cafédirect.

Make the Big Swap to Cafédirect at work!

Make the Big Swap to Cafédirect at work!

Anne MacCaig, Cafédirect CEO,  commented  “As office politics goes, the humble tea round would seem an unlikely cause of controversy. But with some making markedly more tea than others, workers are coming to blows over brews.

So to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight, we’re calling on businesses to make the company cuppa fairer, by asking bosses to make the Big Swap to Cafédirect tea. And while they’re at it, to put the kettle on for their staff!”

Is the tea round at your workplace unfair?  Make it fairer by asking for Cafédirect at work – we’ve made it easy for you to do so with our fun competition! Click here, ask your Office Manager to stock Cafédirect and enter our competition to win Afternoon Tea served by the Cafédirect Tea Ladies! The five companies with the most referrals will win Afternoon Tea for them and their colleagues, so pass it on!!

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