For those of you that have never owned a coffee maker in your life, you might equate office coffee as the standard that you would get at home. All I can say is you would be sorely mistaken but in the good way. The domestic coffee that you are going to brew would be many times better than what is being brewed by the industrial coffee maker. All things being equal, assuming you used the same coffee beans, same type of water and grind size and let even say the same machine. The only difference is you washes the machine after every use, and let me assure you that this would immediately improves the standard of your coffee. The thing that pulls down the standard of coffee in your office is not so much other thing but the lack of maintenance.