A benefit your people use up to three times a week.
Gadens asks people to be in more often than they are not, and leaves each team to work out what that looks like. That is the right instinct, and it means the office has to earn the day rather than mandate it. This proposal treats coffee as a workplace investment and sets it out as one: what is committed, what it returns, and the levers that move both.
Level 12 already has the hard part solved. The Collins Arch fitout gave you a genuine social heart, with the communal tables and the stair connecting eleven through thirteen. What it does not yet have is a reason to gather at a predictable time, or coffee worth crossing the floor for. A barista, on the same three days every week, becomes both.
Across roughly 400 Melbourne staff, the fully subsidised service works out near $356 per head, per year, or about $6.85 a week. Set against an hour of junior fee earner time, it breaks even at around seven minutes saved per person per day. A return trip to a Collins Street cafe is fifteen to twenty. Where a staff contribution is preferred, the calculator below models that in full.
We are proposing Melbourne first, deliberately. Prove it on one floor, measure it properly, and let the results decide what comes next.
