The smell of coffee is
one of my absolutely favorite things to wake up to in the morning. I feel like
it just completes my morning, after I indulge that first sip. I always feel like I
drink too much coffee so I tried to cut back on it but it’s pretty much impossible. So when I came upon the article, “46 percent of us less
productive without coffee”, I instantly got excited. Could there actually
be a reason for our addiction to this delicious caffeinated drink?
The article mentions a recent study
done by Dunkin’ Donuts and it says, “public relations is the second-most caffeinated
industry in America” (Sebastian). With the long hours and heavy workload
public relations professionals have to deal with on a daily basis, this fact is
not very hard to believe. Also, drinking coffee has good health benefits.
Drinking coffee “lowers the chances of: heart disease, liver cirrhosis, type II
diabetes, depression, stroke, gout” (Sebastian).
So if we are “less productive”
without coffee, if companies chose to ban coffee from the workplace, nothing
would ever get accomplished. It’s just a funny thought. Coffee allows people to
“run longer and faster by up to 25 percent and increases concentration and
decreases fatigue” (Sebastian). So in
other words, I feel like coffee is definitely something that helps the work
performance of professionals. Your body is constantly ready
for action, even when you're just sitting still at the computer. With that
boost of energy from coffee, I always feel like I just woke up from a long rested
sleep.
There
are a lot of people who don’t like coffee but come to love it after they start
working in a job where they need all the energy they can get. So could we say
the workplace is a motivation factor for people to start drinking coffee? I
think so, just because there are certain jobs that require a lot of time and
commitment and people feel like they have to be “refueled” without having to
get enough sleep. This could be bad in some cases, but I guess it balances out
since coffee has health benefits.
Last year, public relations ranked
number nine on the list of professionals who consume the most coffee. It’s a
big increase in course of a year. With
coffee being such a necessity for public relations professionals, it’s weird to
think of what would happen if coffee didn’t exist. Would we have some sort of
other energy booster we can’t live without? Coffee has become an essential part
of our everyday life. Sure there are alternatives to coffee such as energy
drinks and caffeinated soft drinks, but for me, there’s nothing like the taste
of coffee.
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