If you only do one thing this week … take cake to work
February 8, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
Baking a cake for you colleagues could improve morale in the office. Photograph: Brand New Images Ltd/Getty/Stone
Hands up, who doesn’t like cake? Exactly. Imagine your joy if someone brought some into work and shared it with you. Now imagine being the bringer of so much joy to your colleagues. OK, so spending time and effort to bake a delicious cake to share with your peers, rather than your family or friends, might seem like a pointless exercise. But where there is cake, glee often follows – and surely we all need a bit of something uplifting when we’re at work?
Take the Consumer desk here at the Guardian. In the past fortnight, for one reason or another, we’ve been sent cake (cupcakes, sponges) from random places – and every time one comes along the quiet, deadline-looming atmosphere is broken and everyone suddenly comes alive. Even though the cake itself is not really anything special, an intense sugar hit in the form of frosting or royal icing can do a lot to lighten the mood.
Recently, Guardian reader ClaireBear1171 mentioned that for National Baking Week …
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