Coffee in the Workplace

It doesn't matter whether you drink coffee or not. In the workplace, coffee is the new lunch. Coffee doesn't mean a drink. It means a short meeting outside of office. It could be social, it could be networking, and it could be all about business; but it means "not too long". Or, it could mean "I don't like you enough in that way" to have lunch.

Not long ago, dinner was too much time and energy to risk spending with someone you didn't know well. All the dating sites proved that dinner was just too much. Now, it's lunch's turn. The alternative（替代品）？Coffee.

When people invite you to a "coffee", it means they will spend some time with you and they will probably help you-but not that much . However, the benefits to the new culture of coffee are many. There is often nowhere to sit in coffee places, so meetings tend to be short. Coffee does not make you fat，if you don＇t order a 1000 calorie（卡路里）coffee drink every time. Coffee is cheap, relatively speaking, so there is no worry over the check.

In our drive for getting more work done in a short time, lunch is being replaced with coffee. Lunch is now arranged for true friends and making deals. In some places, a nice business lunch has become a luxury（奢侈）. And there are lots of business lunches where everyone is on his or her phone anyway. That can be done over a coffee.

Going for a coffee is here to stay. So the next time someone asks you to have a coffee-GO. It's not that much of a concern for either side . And, although it's time-saving. "coffee" could be the first step to something much bigger.

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