Even ignoring the “making your workplace not be an insufferable place to be” justification, providing free tea and coffee is basically a legal and fairly cheap way of plying your employees with stimulants. Literally any office with any sense does it.
What office does?
Every single office I’ve worked in. Really, every single workplace I’ve worked in, from summer gigs in random places up until where I work today.
It’s baseline expected from any workplace in Sweden
Every job I’ve ever had in the US too.
Even ignoring the “making your workplace not be an insufferable place to be” justification, providing free tea and coffee is basically a legal and fairly cheap way of plying your employees with stimulants. Literally any office with any sense does it.