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Jura bean to cup would've been my go-to if my colleagues liked espresso drinks, cleaning etc. is easy-ish as it's just 10 minutes hanging around the machine (filling/emptying water trays when prompted) while it cleans itself with the supplied cleaning tablets... (which you'll need to stock up on from time to time) and that can be done every friday at beer time.
If you get one of the milk-things (to be able to get one-button flat whites etc) cleaning gets tedious, you'll need to assign the office intern or someone to the machine, as the milk chamber and related "hoses" would need frequent (again, weekly does the job) and involved cleaning, with washing up liquid and running hot water.
disq
Yep agreed with all above, an espresso machine will become a white elephant.
I thought either a grinder and filter setup or one of the semi-automatic Sage machines, but the proper bean to cup models are a decent wedge of cash, and still require attention, cleaning etc, so not great.
The Jura and Technivorm are great suggestions, will see if that or similar is available with the limited suppliers.
Fortunately the boss is a coffee snob too.
Thanks all, very helpful