-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Amid the pandemic , the widespread closures of offices spurred a new era of remote working. That, of course, came with its fair share of changes. Telework suddenly became the new norm.
Same with casual attire — as opposed to business casual attire. And same with the lack of corporate lunch culture. The traditional lunch break is defined as a period of time when one stops working to eat lunch — whether by themselves or with co-workers.
In the past decade, the popularity of the communal office kitchen has made lunch breaks more of a social and joyous affair. But when remote working took off, lunch breaks quickly became non-existent. A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that during the post-lockdown period, people spent an average of 48.
5 minutes more at work each day. Spending more time in meetings and responding to emails also meant less time away from the computer to enjoy lunch. When asked back in 2019 what she would consider a life well-lived, Ruchika T.
Malhotra said it’s “a proper, generous lunch break.” “I’d consider my life well-lived if I took time to eat lunch during the workday almost every day,” she wrote in the Harvard Business Review . “This means not at my desk, not in a meeting or while working, but connecting with someone, or even myself, while I eat mindfully.
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