5 Ways Organic Office Fruit Delivery Supports Workplace Wellness

If you’re looking for ways to level up your wellness program, organic fruit delivery for the break room, conference room, or office snack station is a great option. It’s a low-lift, high-impact way to show your team that you care about their health—and it can make a real difference in their wellbeing, too. Curious how it all ties together? Here are five positive things organic office fruit delivery does for workplace wellness. 

1. Encourages Healthy Habits

Tweaking your environment can help change your habits. And at work, these nudges toward a healthier lifestyle start in the break room. Having fresh, ready-to-eat organic fruit within arm’s reach makes it easier for employees to choose a banana or apple over a candy bar.

Laura Powers of Indiana Blood Centers saw this in action after ordering fresh fruit from The FruitGuys for her company’s eight locations. 

“The biggest thing for us is that it boosts morale,” she said. “People eat a lot more fruit instead of junk food now.”

Placing colorful, farm-fresh fruit front and center can also act as a visual reminder to your team to do other things that are good for their health and productivity—like staying hydrated and skipping sugary, processed snacks. Psychotherapist Kristin Barton Cuthriell calls this buildup of positivity “The Snowball Effect” in her book of the same name. 

Even the act of walking to the break room to grab that mango or kiwi has benefits. Standing up from your desk to stretch and snack is a kind of microbreak that can help employees relax, recharge, and ultimately be more focused and less likely to burn out. They might even connect with a coworker at the fruit bowl, which can have huge benefits for workplace wellness, too. 

2. Promotes Physical Health and Wellness

Speaking of wellness, fresh fruit is one of the best things you can eat for your physical health. Every piece of fruit has different health benefits, but they’re all full of essential vitamins, fiber, and antioxidants that contribute to better digestion and more sustained energy (meaning more productive work) throughout the day. 

A snack like an apple or a handful of berries helps stabilize blood sugar levels, preventing the dreaded mid-morning or afternoon crash. And in the long term, eating fresh fruit decreases your risk of metabolic syndrome, which can lead to heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and more. 

Ultimately, offering fresh fruit in the break room can help your team feel better and might even reduce absenteeism and healthcare costs for your company. Employees can get these health benefits from both conventional and organic fruit, but as this blog explains, choosing organic could be slightly more beneficial. 

A 2020 literature review of thirty-five scientific papers found that while the evidence wasn’t definitive, people who ate more organic food appeared less likely to experience health problems like infertility, birth defects, ear infections, the development of new allergies, preeclampsia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and more.

3. Supports Mental Health and Brainpower

Rates of anxiety and depression are rising, especially among young people. That’s bad news for the workforce—but it turns out fresh fruit can help. 

Eating fresh fruits and vegetables is great for the gut microbiome, and a healthy gut can help protect against anxiety and depression. (One recent study found that eating just one orange per day could lower your odds of depression by 20 percent.) Eating fruit can also boost our brainpower. It helps us build new neural pathways that make it easier to learn, remember, and solve problems. 

For a deeper dive into fruit and brain health, check out our blog “Fruit Is Brain Food! Health Benefits for Memory and More.” 

4. Increases Employee Happiness and Job Satisfaction

Offering fresh, healthy food in the office shows your employees that you care, especially if they can snack for free. In a 2023 survey of over 1,000 workers, 46% reported that free food “made them more likely to stay at their company,” and 57% said free and subsidized food was their favorite “workplace perk.”

Considering how much food costs have increased since 2023, we wouldn’t be surprised if today’s workers appreciate free snacks even more! And since fruit is naturally gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan-friendly, it’s a treat pretty much everyone can partake in. 

5. Showcases Your Commitment to Sustainability

Any fruit can bring your team the other benefits on this list, but sustainability is where organic office fruit delivery really shines. That’s because data shows employees want to work for companies that are committed to the environment—something organic farming focuses on. 

According to American employees surveyed for the 2023 Net Positive Employee Barometer:

• 77% of Gen Z and millennial employees say a company’s commitment to the environment is important to them when choosing a new job
• 66% of employees want their employers to communicate the action they’re taking on big environmental and societal issues
• 61% of employees want their employers to take a stronger stance on the environment

This is more important than you might think. The same survey also found that: 

• 51% of employees would consider resigning if their employers’ values did not align with theirs
• 35% of employees have already resigned from a job because of a values mismatch

Offering organic fruit is an easy way to show your team that your company’s values align with theirs and that you care about things like improving soil health, reducing synthetic pesticide use, and promoting biodiversity. (You can read more about organic farming and the environment here.)

Get Started with Organic Office Fruit Delivery for Workplace Wellness

Organic fruit delivery can make a big impact on workplace wellness—but you don’t have to take our word for it! Try it yourself by ordering our farm-fresh fruit for your in-person, hybrid, or remote team. We have both organic and conventional options and deliver nationwide, including to employees’ homes. Click here to browse our fruit and snack mixes.