UMASS Business Free Lunches for Employees Essay

September 23, 2022

Overview: You are the director of Acme’s Employee Culture Committee. This team meets once a week to plan events and discuss how to continuously improve the culture for employees at Acme. After polling current employees about what new benefits would make them want to stay with Acme, you learned that the most popular choices were

An employee gym and fitness center at the office

Free lunches for employees at least once per week

As head of Acme’s Employee Culture Committee, you will be choosing which of these two options to propose to the company’s leadership team. You will need to persuade the leadership team that offering one of these benefits to employees is worth the investment

Your goal is to write an essay in which you are trying to persuade your fellow colleagues to join you in support of implementing a free gym or free lunch for staff. You get to choose which one you want and support it with evidence from the provided articles (the articles can be found in the Supporting Materials section).

Deliverable:
1. Proposal Draft: 450–550 words

Resources:

Fitness Center Resources: Use these resources from the Shapiro Library to learn about the benefits of employee wellness programs and fitness centers. If you choose to write your proposal about this topic, you can use these readings as evidence to support your argument:

Reading: Employee Wellness Is a Culture at Optum

Reading: Wellness Isn’t jJust About Gym Memberships

Reading: Weighing the Value of Workplace Wellness

Reading: Making Workouts Work

Reading: 5 Health Risks Worth Targeting: Evidence Shows That Wellness Efforts Aimed at Exercise, Nutrition, Smoking Cessation, Stress and Sleep Can Be Effective and Needn’t Be Expensive

Free Lunch Resources: Use these resources from the Shapiro Library to learn about the benefits of free food at work. If you choose to write your proposal about this topic, you can use these readings as evidence to support your argument:

Reading: Fuel Your Corporate Team: EAT Club Offers Lunch as an Employee Benefit

Reading: Fueling Hard Work and Hard Play

Reading: Companies’ Perks Include Free Food – and Exercise to Help Work It Off

Reading: Why Employee Experience Trumps Company Culture

Reading: Why Free Lunch for Employees Isn’t Just a Perk (and How It Will Benefit Your Company)

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