You will find that some companies will completely bypass any social niceties during meetings. When offering food and biscuits they will come straight from their biscuit packets. A strong element of comfort eating is associated with custard creams, chocolate digestives and particularly jammie dodgers.  In companies like these there are often minor scuffles around the office desks that house the biscuits. Last packet panicking over biscuits, sees a company that has an instant gratification culture which is slightly childlike in pursuing goals.

Comfort is the main theme for companies like these and style tends to be absent.

If you work in a company like this be sure to pin photos of your children and pets to your PC monitor.  Keep family pictures in the top draw of your office desk and wear a cardigan.

Taking things to the other extreme, fresh fruit which is made available to staff implies that the boss is a health conscious task master. This boss knows that healthier, low fat fruit is going to give him a meaner and leaner workforce. This company adopts a trendy way of thinking and it is cool to run up and down stairs and to stand up at your office desk to have work conversations in the middle of the room, this is a company that’s not for the work shy.