Getting rid of free office snacks doesn't come cheap
It&#x27;s funny: For a lot of the employees we&#x27;ve hired offering to buy a $500 monitor or a $600 chair moved the needle on how excited they were more than a $5,000 or $10,000 change in salary would.<p>I think there are a few things that play into that: If you made an extra $10,000 you&#x27;d want to do something responsible with it, but you wouldn&#x27;t really notice an instantaneous change in your day-to-day life.<p>But I think more importantly than that it signals that you&#x27;re supposed to have a good experience and be taken care of. Saying, &quot;Look, if you want&#x2F;need a monitor or computer to work consider it done&quot; says something about the company. Your success means something to them.<p>What can office snacks possibly cost a company? Say it&#x27;s a 10-person company, snacks would cost <i>maybe</i> $1,000&#x2F;month on the high end? And at that point you&#x27;re probably burning &gt;$120,000&#x2F;month in salaries. It&#x27;s barely even a drop in the bucket, assuming we&#x27;re not talking about infinite catered meals.