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[Food] Do you take an actual LUNCH HOUR?

Do you take a full hour break for lunch?

  • Yes, always

    Votes: 38 26.0%

  • No, never

    Votes: 72 49.3%

  • Sometimes

    Votes: 36 24.7%
  • Total voters
    146


Guinness Boy

Guinness Boy

Tofu eating wokerati
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Jul 23, 2003
34,316
Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
Back when I first started working in an office pretty much everyone took an hour break for lunch and more like two on Friday when you went to the pub (unless you were the poor sod working in the call centre). I think it was even written into employment contracts.

Even before the pandemic this had morphed to a quick nip to the shops and a sandwich at the desk or now and again no lunch break at all.

Now, working from home, I've managed to make a sandwich from the leftovers in the fridge (and two bits of Farmhouse White from Flour Pot :wink: ) throw a ball for the dog in the garden for a while, wash up, listen to a quick hail / thunder storm and write this in less than 35 minutes, and, once it's posted will be back concentrating on work properly.

Does ANYONE take the full hour these days? And what do you do with it (I can guess what [MENTION=31]El Presidente[/MENTION] 's answer to that might be).
 




M

mothy

Well-known member
Dec 30, 2012
2,114
Normally take a half hour break. Never really done a lunch hour. But try to do once or twice a week an extended lunch of 1.5hr for gym or other exercise. So it works out over the course of the week as 1 hr on average
 


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juliant

Well-known member
Apr 4, 2011
562
Northamptonshire
I have worked from home for 10 years plus. Never take the full hour as i know i take the pee by doing a lot of stuff in work time ie shower, cut the grass or hang washing out. It all evens up in the end
 


Psychobilly freakout

Psychobilly freakout

HellBilly
Feb 23, 2009
23,090
Brighton factually.....
No never, from the moment I get to work anywhere between 8:30 - 9am I work through solidly until 5 or just after, I simply do not get time, occasionally I will walk to the shop and get something to eat, but mainly I eat at the desk. I am usually on my own since another member of staff retired and the boss has not replaced him.
I often wonder am I entitled to an hour a day and could I claim that back over 12 years.
 






zefarelly

zefarelly

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Jul 7, 2003
21,858
Sussex, by the sea
Psychobilly freakout said:
No never, from the moment I get to work anywhere between 8:30 - 9am I work through solidly until 5 or just after, I simply do not get time, occasionally I will walk to the shop and get something to eat, but mainly I eat at the desk. I am usually on my own since another member of staff retired and the boss has not replaced him.
I often wonder am I entitled to an hour a day and could I claim that back over 12 years.
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A year off should cover it.
 




Westdene Seagull

Westdene Seagull

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Oct 27, 2003
21,083
The arse end of Hangleton
Nope .... but only because I'm in a position to be on a sabbatical. When I return to work I probably will, if only to walk the dog.
 




dazzer6666

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Mar 27, 2013
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When I was working - whether commuting to London or at home - I used to take at least an hour (often more - particularly taking changing and showering into account) to go for a run or to the gym. Not always at lunch time (more often than not mid-morning or mid-afternoon), but would fit it in around meetings. A commuting day was typically 6am-7.30pm, and a WFH day 6.30-6.30. I found the break, and doing something physical rather than mental, made me much more efficient and alert. Pretty much always ate actual lunch whilst working.
 


Gabbafella

Gabbafella

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Aug 22, 2012
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I manage a warehouse for a relatively small business, it can be both mentally and physically tiring so I always make sure I take the full hour and my bosses get annoyed if people don't have a proper lunch break which is quite refreshing.
The company is quite flexible though, if you need to arrive late, leave early or take a longer lunch to run errands, they're pretty good with it all.
 








Frutos

Frutos

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May 3, 2006
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We can take more if we wish, but a 30 min break is the minimum expectation.

Our overall manager once told a fairly senior staff member off after discovering that said staff member had worked through their supposed lunch break the previous day.
 






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Cheeky Monkey

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Jul 17, 2003
23,058
When working nights my ‘lunch’ consists of a 30-45 minute power shower in the firm’s gym facility.
 


Goldstone1976

Goldstone1976

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Apr 30, 2013
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Herts
No. Haven’t done so since the late 80s. Munch a sandwich while browsing NSC for a few minutes.
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
70,350
Meeting scheduling software killed the concept of any kind of lunch break at all for many. In fact for some it killed the concept of a break to get any work done between meetings. So work somehow became something do be done after work on the train and/or at home in evenings and at weekends
 


M

Mellor 3 Ward 4

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Jul 27, 2004
9,828
saaf of the water
I have a break, how long it is depends on how busy I am (it's my business so I don't have anyone to answer to apart from myself)

Always go for a walk, even if it's only 20 minutes or so, I find it helps both physically and mentally.
 




BN9 BHA

BN9 BHA

DOCKERS
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Jul 14, 2013
21,631
Newhaven
Sometimes an hour but mostly 1/2 hour, depending on how busy I am. Today I have come home for lunch as this afternoon I can’t start a job until 2pm and I finished the morning job earlier than I thought.
But being a self employed business owner it’s up to me what hours I work
 


Taybha

Taybha

Whalewhine
Oct 8, 2008
27,217
Uwantsumorwat
It's odd that most people in offices who sit on their arses all day still seem to get a lunch hour when people who do real work get far less. :whistle:
 


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