The Effect of Coffee on People's Productivity

In people's daily lives, productivity is a positive thing in influencing a person's success in carrying out work. Coffee has many positive segments in helping employees increase this productivity.

1. Coffee Improving Productivity

Drinking caffeine in a coffee cup will help employees stay focused and concentrate on better work. It can also help with that midday slump feeling and give them a boost. The caffeine in the coffee for a long time back is well known as Arabian medicine (Ukers, 1922). Until today in the United Arab Emirates, coffee was the most significant commodity to help people more productive, and the study also mentions that the UAE is among the world's biggest consumers of coffee. "Caffeine consumption is highly prevalent among adults in the UAE, which ranks high among other countries" (Mohammad Bakri Alaa Hammami, 2018).

Since caffeine has a stimulant that helps people move much faster, it also makes a person feel alert. Coffee can help employees stay awake because it increases their brain activity and causes an energy boost. Coffee not only has a high impact on the people who work every day; it has also given a massive effect on the businesses. It has been a considerable number risen of the coffee shop and coffee roasters just opened in the UAE, as Khaleej Times mentioned that, "The country is home to more than 4,000 cafés. With around six million cups consumed per day at an average, changing lifestyle, new hospitality trends, and expanding tourism are acting as catalysts in boosting the industry" (Mehkri, 2017).

The culture of drinking coffee has experienced a shift. In coffee drinks contain various psychotic substances, caffeine, which can stimulate the production of two stimulating hormones, namely cortisone and adrenaline. As a result, coffee has the effect of eliminating drowsiness, increasing mental awareness, thinking, focus, and response. Drinking coffee can also keep the body awake and increase energy. Meanwhile, the fact about coffee shops as a lifestyle is increasingly emphasized by the need for modernization. Coffee shops are now a place for social interaction, a place for people to hang out.

2. Reducing Time Waste at Work

When the workplace offers coffee, it will give employees an incentive to stay and get another work while in the work area. Since a long time back, coffee houses built to help reduce time waste for people who worked since the early morning. It was mentioned from the coffee itself in the 16th century from London to New York until today (Ukers, 1922).

A workspace might be losing valuable work time when employees leave to get a cup of coffee. That is why some businesses bring the coffee maker spaces in helping the employees in their productivity. The idea of coffee itself helped the resilience for the employee to manage their time for work during their duty (Mohammad Bakri Alaa Hammami, 2018). 

3. Helping Employee Socialization

For some workers to have a cup of coffee at work will open the social barriers. It can also help the new employees meet current co-workers, create a distinct area in the workplace, and be a good ice-breaker. It also means that employees have chances to interact with each other at work. A coffee break can mean a quick catch up with co-workers, mostly if they have been stuck at their cubicle or desk all day. Since a long time back, it also mentioned that coffee helped people to socialize between them both in the work area also outside after work (Ukers, 1922).

In research, coffee also has an active role in society, including in the following sociological analysis journals, "the coffee consumption behaviour by coffee drinkers can be seen from actor or coffee drinker, activities performed, appearance reasons coffee consumption and coffee drinking places. Things that influence coffee consumption behaviour include social media, lifestyle, friends or co-workers, family, income, motivation, and knowledge of coffee drinkers. Consumptive behaviour indicators themselves include consumption only to maintain one's appearance or prestige, consume up price and consumption considerations to indicate social status." (Solikatun, 2015)

There are many ways to make productivity more assertive at work, apart from a strong desire to complete the job itself; there are other prior rights needed by the body in the form of stimulants. It is coffee that has always been a necessity from time to time, from the medieval era to the present. Not a bit has been mentioned earlier by the primary source and the second from the original, which confirms it. Before ending this paper, I would like to suggest that there are other essential things in maintaining the sustainability of coffee cultivation that affect the lives of the people, namely maintaining consistency in farmers' sustainability. Hopefully, one day we can enter into this discussion.

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*Thanks to Brittany Strelluf for reviewing this short paper through the English assignment at the University of the People.

References

Mehkri, I. A. (2017, December 13). Rise of cafés in the region. Retrieved from Khaleej Times: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/supplements/rise-of-cafs-in-the-region

Mohammad Bakri Alaa Hammami, Y. G. (2018). Caffeine Consumption Levels and Knowledge Among Adults in the United Arab Emirates: Insights from a Nationwide Survey. Journal of Caffeine and Adenosine Research, 71-79.

Solikatun, D. T. (2015). Perilaku Konsumsi Kopi Sebagai Budaya Masyarakat: Studi Fenomenologi Pada Peminum Kopi di Kedai Kopi Kota Semarang. Jurnal Analisa Sosiologi, 60-74.

Ukers, W. H. (1922). All About Coffee. Alexandria: The Library of Alexandria.