Microwave in the office?

Selmaril2012-03-20 12:16:52

Work organization

Selmaril, 2012-03-20 12:16:52

Good afternoon, Habr!
There is a workflow problem that is insurmountable (because of the polarity of opinions), and the authority and experience of the community in solving this problem is very, VERY needed.
Bottom line: Is it okay to have a microwave in a developer's office?
We have an office 6x10 meters, 3 developers sit in it. One goes to the dining room and is categorically against the smells of food in the office. The other two do not eat in the dining room (one is not tasty, the other is expensive). How to be?
Do you have a corner in the office with food, cookies, a refrigerator and a microwave? Were there any problems with the combination of the office and the corner with the yamka? How do you personally feel about the kitchen corner in the workplace? How do small teams and startups solve the problem of catering (in your face)?
This question will be used as an argument in a dispute (and I think it will come in handy not only for me). Thank you for all the opinions and comments that you write here, all options, opinions and experiences are very valuable to me!

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19 answer(s)

smileonl, 2012-03-20
@smileonl

A separate snack room solves a lot of problems, the smell of food in the office infuriates me.

sergeyvolobuev, 2012-03-20
@sergeyvolobuev

I am against food in the workplace. The maximum is coffee / tea / juice and cookies.

Finom, 2012-03-20
@Finom

Regular airing of the room eliminates not only the smells of food, but also maintains a constant, stable level of oxygen, which is very useful during mental stress.

Yizakhi, 2012-03-20
@Yizakhi

A microwave "for everyone" should be in the dining room. There is only tea and cookies in the office :).
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Batonchik, 2012-03-20
@Batonchik

Personally, I shield that a microwave is needed. And if a person is not satisfied with the smell, why not use it while he goes to the dining room? You look while he goes back and forth and eats, you will have time to warm up / eat food and ventilate the room from smells.
And yes, there is a corner, but in the form of a small separate room where everyone eats without interfering with the work process.

igorakintev, 2012-03-20
@igorakintev

We have a separate room for tea parties. A microwave oven, as well as a kettle are needed. The smell of food in the workplace is not needed.

strib, 2012-03-20
@strib

Nothing good comes from eating at the workplace. And so there is something smelly in the office - rudeness towards others.
If there is an opportunity, then you need to eat in a place specially designated for this, no - negotiate, the opinion of one in relation to two is not so small, and simply the principle of the majority is not applicable.

zzapp, 2012-03-20
@zzapp

I am also against the microwave in the common room. Still, strong-smelling food can be annoying, especially when warmed up, which does not contribute to the creation of a working environment. But a separate room with the necessary equipment such as a refrigerator, microwave, etc. just needed)

skvot, 2012-03-20
@skvot

I think that there should be a separate room for meals. We have everyone eating behind monitors at their workplaces right, a terrible sight.
By the way, they rarely ventilate (well, at least I am resistant to smells), and they eat everything, as a rule, in turn, and there are 8 people in the room.

Alexander, 2012-03-20
@Awake

There is a room of 60 sq.m. It is quite possible to allocate 3-4 sq.m. to a room with this very microwave and a table for eating. Well, implement some kind of hood. I am against having lunch at the work table and stink all over the place. Cookies, juice, coffee - yes, strong smelling - by no means.

SSiarhei, 2012-03-20
@SSiarhei

In our company, on each floor in the extensions of the corridors, 2 kitchens are equipped (5 refrigerators, 3 microwave ovens, kettles, coffee makers, coffee machines, etc.). Conveniently.

izmalk, 2012-03-20
@izmalk

We also have, in a room with 4 workers and 15 m2, one of us has gastritis and does not eat in the dining room.
The microwave oven is in another office, it uses heating at the workplace. Even if at the same time everyone has already had lunch in the dining room, it is still very distracting IMHO. Although, theoretically, you can make it a rule - to go to lunch at the same time and heat and eat food for him. As a result, he will obviously cope faster (in the dining line, and even back and forth) and will have time to ventilate.
But at one of my previous jobs, I noticed that the kitchen is a great thing in the office, moreover, as a separate room and so that at least 4 people fit there. And it is for developers (in the sense of programmers or designers, for example). Because it is very effective to discuss working moments moving away from the workplace, and even over a mug of your favorite drink and a liver. This gives +25% Wits +15% Stamina.
I also noticed there that smoking breaks have a similar effect, but to a much lesser extent, especially in the fresh air and always in the campaign of colleagues)

Silver_Clash, 2012-03-20
@Silver_Clash

Definitely a private space. There is no place for a microwave in the office. We only have a coffee maker and a kettle in the office. True, 10 meters from the office there is a spacious kitchen.

Dmitry, 2012-03-20
@DedalX

We have a mini fridge, microwave on it and a kettle. The microwave has one big drawback (no matter how expensive and good it is) - if you heat food in it, then the smell spreads to the entire office (and this smell is not very pleasant, so you don’t warm it up there).

Kuzma, 2012-03-21
@Kuzma

We have a separate small room - a kitchen. There is a microwave and a kettle. There are no special chairs, although you can bring it with you, but no one bothers)
Even if there is a door, there is still a smell, but it is solved by airing the room
. You have 3 people. 1 of them goes to the dining room. While he is gone, the rest can eat and ventilate themselves.

multlurk, 2012-03-21
@multlurk

There are just three people sitting in our office and a microwave. The smell of food is felt only during the meal itself and no one complains :)
We also have a separate room with a table, a refrigerator and a microwave, where anyone can have a bite to eat.
In your situation, while one goes to the canteen, others can eat at the workplace. The smells from food, as I wrote, after the end of the meal disappear pretty quickly.

nick0x01, 2012-03-21
@nick0x01

We have (three rooms are also about 60 squares each, 7 people in total), and a refrigerator with a microwave is right in front of my desktop. In addition to lunch, there is one employee who, while at work, eats three times a day ... And all these smells are very disturbing. There is also a table with a cooler/teapot, around which they are sometimes going to scratch their tongues... So I'm in favor of a separate kitchen.
Although, on the other hand, if the choice is between without a microwave / with a microwave in the room, then the second is better, but with an agreement to use it at lunch, while other employees go to the dining room.

FaultCode, 2016-01-27
@FaultCode

There is a microwave in the study, next to my workplace. Every weekday there are 7 people coming up to her to warm up the food. Every weekday, I am bombarded with a wave of microwave radiation 7 times. I am a tactful person, I am silent. BUT it's scary. If only it didn’t wedge, otherwise the microwave kirdyk