But does that contribute in any way to your productivity? In my experience I’d rather have the investment be prioritised towards more tangible things like additional training. Flashy and marketable perks like fruit basket often unfortunately get prioritised over non sexy, but meaningful improvements and articles such as this, don’t help.
lmm|7 years ago
It contributes to my happiness, which is ultimately what I care about - productivity is another means to the same end.
> In my experience I’d rather have the investment be prioritised towards more tangible things like additional training.
You talk about things being "prioritised" but I just don't think that matches how these decisions are made. It's not like they're taking money out of some fixed pool (again, at a practical-decision-making level); I see no reason to think that fruit baskets make training less likely. (Indeed I'd say that providing fruit baskets speaks to a willingness to offer cheap-but-effective things, and I'd rather work for somewhere that tried to offer cheap-but-effective training than somewhere that tried to offer expensive training).