Improve Company Culture with Food Delivery for Remote Employees

Remote Employee Engagement

We all know employee engagement has become one of the most important factors when it comes to competing with other companies for attracting and retaining top talent. Gone are the days of people taking jobs purely for the pay. With the shift in today’s work landscape, flexibility for remote working has risen to the top of the list for workers’ criteria when choosing a job. Bottom line, your employees want to enjoy their lives and their working environment needs to accommodate and enhance that.

Today’s businesses not only have the responsibility to make their employees feel welcomed and valued, but need to rethink the perks they offer that ultimately make their hybrid and remote employees feel a deeper connection to both their peers and the organization they work for.

One great place to start tangibly connecting your workforce to your culture by providing employee snack boxes for remote teams. By minimizing the daily burden of getting food across your teams, you are not only signifying your investment in their time, but simultaneously boosting their collective productivity and increasing employee satisfaction within their work environment, no matter where they are.  

In this article, we’ll go through the many ways that companies like yours can provide meal and snack services to their remote workers.

Food Delivery Benefits

According to a recent study by McKinsey, 58% of employed Americans have the option to work from home at least one day a week, and of those Americans that are offered this flexibility to work remotely, 87% take it. This means, most of the American workforce is at home at least one day a week (and more often than not, are home a majority of their work week).

Though it's been proven that remote employee productivity has increased, there is also a distinctive break in the connection employees feel to their office culture. After all, this group of workers are missing out on the water cooler chats and in-office lunch dates with their friends, peers, and leaders.

To help bridge that gap, food delivery should be an essential part of the employee benefits package for all remote employees. Let’s go over some of the ways you can provide your remote employees with meal and snacks services:

• Surprise and delight with gift cards
  Bring some ease to your remote workers’ lives by sending them a credit that can be used at local restaurants, markets, or delivery services. You can send gift cards to your employees on a regular schedule, or save it for special occasions or rewards.
  
  
• Create food delivery allowances
  Stand up a credit system that covers a certain amount per month, per employee for snacks and beverages. Use a platform, like Crafty’s, to upload virtual dollars that cover the cost of delivering treats directly to their employees’ homes.

Employee Snack Boxes

Developing a system so that your remote employees can receive some of the in-office perks they’re used to is a great investment in their overall satisfaction. A great way to do this is by sending a curated box of the in-office snacks they love.

Food perks don’t stop at daily meals and snacks – they’re also great for celebrations and conferences. Virtual events are a great opportunity to offer delicious treats for your remote employees to bond over. Depending on the location of their home offices, you could even place group orders for special events.

Now that remote work is here to stay, food delivery companies like DoorDash and Uber have created services for companies to feed their employees at home. While these solutions help employees enjoy meals from local restaurants, Crafty does things a little different by keeping your employee’s pantries full with personalized snack boxes catered to their preferences.

Crafty Snack Boxes

Dedicated Program Management

When Crafty is taking care of your remote food services, we assign you a program manager who is focused on your specific needs. They’ll work with you to continuously make sure your remote workers are satisfied (and full!).

Professional Preparation

At Crafty, we make it very convenient to feed your employees with delicious and healthy food. Our highly customizable, corporate snack boxes are carefully designed to give all of your employees something to be excited about, regardless of their food preferences or restrictions. We work hard to provide a large variety of enticing food options, because food should be fun, nourishing, delicious, exciting, inviting, and most of all, tailored to your particular tastes!

Remote Delivery

Remote employees shouldn’t be missing out on in-office work perks like snacks and beverages. With our Crafty Care Packages, your employees get to personalize their own snack box that gets sent straight to their homes. Seriously, who doesn’t like to open up their front door to a variety of snacks?! It’s the best way to start your day.

We make it super easy for companies to manage their food perks budget through our Crafty Credits system where employees can be sent virtual dollars to redeem treats on a recurring basis.

Other Employee Meal Delivery:

Doordash: DoorDash for Work is a program that allows companies multiple ways to offer delivery meal benefits to their remote and in-office workers. Companies can give out free DoorDash credits to their employees, or they can pay for their worker’s DashPass memberships, which removes delivery fees from their employee’s orders.

Grubhub: Grubhub is focusing its efforts on providing meals for virtual events globally. With their program, employers let workers order meals from a variety of nationwide restaurants straight to their homes. Employers set their event budget and receive one invoice for all the orders.

Uber: Uber Eats created a customizable food delivery program that can be used for daily employee meals, virtual events, or treating clients at virtual sales meetings. Workers can use the dashboard to order meals and check how much they can spend.

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When it comes to employee engagement and satisfaction, actions speak louder than words. And with remote and hybrid work being here to stay, office perks should exist both inside and outside of the office. In a recent survey, 90% of remote workers miss at least one food-related perk of working in the office. With the technology to easily provide delicious and customizable food options, your remote employees don’t have to miss out on food benefits.

Solutions like DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber are great for one-off deliveries, but their offerings are limited and may not be the most sustainable option in the long term. With Crafty, you get a dedicated account manager who gets to know your team to make sure everything is running smoothly and can provide suggestions for your specific situation.

Investing in employee engagement is a win-win, and can be as simple as providing some of the well-loved perks your employees were accustomed to in the office to your remote team. Treat your team to the snacks they love and increase employee connection and satisfaction at the same time. To learn more about a custom solution to your team’s food and beverage needs, get in touch with us today.