Our productivity will decrease by at least 46.5% over the next 2 weeks. We regrettably had to send in our coffee machine - a Jura Impressa F50 - for maintenance purposes.
It has served us well over the last 2 years, providing a total of 21,659 cups of coffee. Mostly Latte Macchiatos. In roughly 400 working days, that is an average of 54 Latte Macchiatos a day, assuming that a 14-person team makes an average of 4 cups per person per day. Actually, 30% of our team doesn’t drink coffee, so that makes an average of 6 Latte Macchiatos per coffee drinking team member per day.
After considering the numbers, it is easy to understand why it will be tough for us to live without the coffee machine for 2 weeks…
On the other hand, 21,659 Latte Macchiatos with an average preparation time of 3 minutes each means that we have spent 64,977 minutes preparing coffee. That’s 1,082 hours, or 45 days, which is more than 2 months full time work. Hmmm… Now that I think about it, our productivity might possibly increase over the next weeks 
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April 23rd, 2008 at 13:21
I didn’t plan to be ill during the tough coffee break (can somebody plan to be ill???). If it helps, I just can drink water and tea about 3-4 liter a day at the moment. Greatigs from home-hospital
April 23rd, 2008 at 16:41
What a great calculation
Though I am one of the “not-drinking-coffee-at-the-office-staff” I would also miss the smell of the fresh coffee, which always creates a great atmosphere. So I do hope that the coffee machine will soon be back 