A few months ago, IBM took away free coffee from their offices in an effort to save money. In doing so, I feel they made a horrible mistake. Having coffee in the office kept people in the office, where people continued to talk about business and projects going on. When they took the coffee out of the office, it forced those who wanted coffee to leave to obtain the office cutting down on the casual business communication going on within the office during the coffee break. I think IBM was wrong and this is a case of "penny wise, dime foolish"