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UK employers are losing almost two million working hours a year, due to staff stopping to make drinks in the office.

A nationwide survey - commissioned by FLAVIA, the 'coffee shop in the office' company - focuses on 500 organisations, with an average of 60 employees. It reveals that 34% of employees stop four times a day to make a tea or coffee.

Of those, 49% admit to making drinks regardless of whether they wanted one or not. Employees also admitted to leaving the office 'because there is no cappuccino'.

Flavia says that "it has come as an alarming surprise to many organisations that their employees are wasting so much time during a working day, purely by making a brew. With a total of two million hours* being lost per year, employers across the UK have acknowledged that something urgent needs to be done."

Shizuka Pye, Global Brand Manager for FLAVIA, says that those employer organisations using his company's drinks system "have seen the amount of wasted working hours decline and employee morale and productivity increase."

*The survey calculations worked out as follows - based on the modekl of an office of 60 employees where 20 people stop four times a day to satisfy their thirst. If each brew takes an average of ten minutes to make this means that out of 10,000 workers who make a round of drinks, each wasting 40 minutes, a total of 400,000 minutes across the UK are lost a day. Converted to hours - approximately 7,000 - multiplied by five days is 35,000 and multiplied again by 52 weeks in a year brings the total wasted hours in the UK to almost two million.

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