Coffee-Runs are the latest office time-waster

Coffee-Runs the latest office time-waster NEWS.com.au Business

Had to chuckle about this story from Australia where businesses are investing in coffee machines to prevent staff disappearing on coffee-runs. By coffee machines, I'm presuming they aren't talking about the standard office-issue drip filter machine. I'm well acquainted with the coffee-run at my place of work which is affectionately called the "Bucks Run". I'm not sure if the recent arrival of a Starbucks across the street means more or less loss in productivity at the office; before it took a ride in a car to the nearest Starbucks which may have meant only the hard core were doing it on a regular basis during office hours, but now that there's a Starbuck's across the street, perhaps more people are doing coffee-runs on the basis that it's "just across the street". How can blame them, too! The office coffee is after all horrible beyond belief! It's only pure addiction on my part that sees me drinking a cup or two of it per day.

For American readers, the reference to "smoko" in the article may need some explantion. I only know what it means because I grew up in New Zealand which shares the same brand of Downunder English. "Smoko" is a term that refers specifically to a smoke break, and more generally to a break from work whether focused on smoking or not.