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by Trundle 2959 days ago
How expensive are your staff? These all sound like wins or at least not losses to me given that even unskilled staff are super expensive compared to these things.

Microwaves are like what, $100? Couches? Another couple hundred? Whiteboards? Probably within the realm of $100 there again for a few of them. Food for one person? Stupidly cheap compared to a salary as well.

As long as getting these things could foreseeably have made only the one person who requested them even slightly happier, it seems worth it.

Standing desks are pretty expensive, I'll give you that. I have seen them used a fair bit though so having them might eventually pay off. Also staff might still feel better about having them even if they're not using them.