Corporate Catering Can Foster Stronger Social Connections for Your St. Louis Business
St. Louis is in an ever-changing work environment, especially post-COVID, and forming relationships at the office can be more challenging than ever before. The one important aspect that hasn’t changed, however, is the importance of building and maintaining connections with other employees in the office. Employees with strong social connections tend to lead to a happier workplace.
Annie McKee, happiness guru and author of How to Be Happy at Work, summarizes this perfectly, stating, “One of the ways we can make ourselves happy and feel more fulfilled in our workplaces is to build friendships with the people that work with us, work for us, and even our boss.”
Furthermore, employees with social connections at work, generally live an overall healthier life than their isolated employee counterparts. According to the Mayo Clinic, “adults with strong social support have a reduced risk of many significant health problems, including depression, high blood pressure and an unhealthy body mass index (BMI).” Taking it a step further, the research also found that those with more quality social relationships are much more likely to live longer than those with thin social relationships.
Corporate catering options include breakfast, lunch, or dinner as well as hors d'oeuvres and cocktails.
This is not to understate the difficulty of forming relationships in the workplace. Building strong relationships is hard in almost all areas of life, especially when employees are often measured by their performance. This pressure often tends to lead to less socializing and more isolated working, which in turn makes for a more fragmented social fabric in the office.
Trying to fit in organic socializing since the beginning of COVID has been a challenge for nearly every employer. Now if only there was a tool to draw people in and serve as the fulcrum for employee togetherness, free from spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks.
Dining together has been vital to togetherness since the beginning of time. Food is essential to the body and socializing is essential to the soul. Remote work has benefits without a doubt, but one of the tradeoffs of that convenient screen time is the lack of in-person socialization. Asking people how their day was, what is new with their life, or how they are doing can get lost when people are only communicating with each other because they have to — whether it be a crammed zoom meeting or spewing details over the phone to meet a deadline.
At LeChef Catering, we offer the menu, experience in coordinating (however you decide to dine), and let the food do the rest. Corporate catering for all types of employees with every type of diet, we deliver a bridge that can help your workplace become a dining room table, even if only for a couple of hours. A happy workplace is a better one - for everyone. Contact us at info@lachef.com or give us a call at 314-647-5350 to discuss corporate catering for your company.
Sources:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-depth/friendships/art-20044860