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Feeding your workers might increase their productivity

Do you feed your workers? Or that is their personal business? [iStockphoto]

Most construction sites have food suppliers, usually, women who either cook in the neighbourhood or bring food around lunch hour. This includes local foods like mandazi, githeri, ugali, chapati and tea.

When I talk to elderly men who worked for the mzungu they tell me that he gave them food. A mzungu I talked to recently told me he feeds his watchman after reporting for duty at no cost.

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