Not eating lunch with your team every day? You're missing out.
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Re: Not eating lunch with your team every day? You're missing out.
#2I go home for lunch every day. I like having an hour to do whatever or take care of errands in the middle of the day, and I like breaking up the work day into chunks.
Re: Not eating lunch with your team every day? You're missing out.
#3I think that making it possible, and encouraging it, is great.
Just don't make people feel bad if they decide to spend their lunch time dealing with groceries, paying bills, or going for a walk in the sun.
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#4I think that making it possible, and encouraging it, is great. Just don't make people feel bad if they decide to spend their lunch time dealing with groceries, paying bills, or going for a walk in the sun.
Exactly. An expectation to perform during personal time is not what the introverts on your team need.
Re: Not eating lunch with your team every day? You're missing out.
#5I go home for lunch every day. I like having an hour to do whatever or take care of errands in the middle of the day, and I like breaking up the work day into chunks.
Its a good thing as long as its not mandated. I rather prefer going home and having lunch with my wife.
Re: Not eating lunch with your team every day? You're missing out.
#6I enjoy eating alone - because I can listen to podcasts, catch up on life TODOs, or squeeze in some exercise.
I also don't like to be subjected to forced meal decisions. Some days I want a light salad type meal. Some winter days I may be a little down and treat myself to a burger and fries.
I'm glad I work at a place that doesn't judge me for disappearing at lunch time.
Re: Not eating lunch with your team every day? You're missing out.
#7I think that making it possible, and encouraging it, is great. Just don't make people feel bad if they decide to spend their lunch time dealing with groceries, paying bills, or going for a walk in the sun.
Exactly. An expectation to perform during personal time is not what the introverts on your team need.
Ugh, seriously. Some of us just want to do our work and go home, not stick around for a company mandated 'happy hour'.
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#8Lunch is my quiet time, I don't want to talk work all day long. I may still think about it, or even be working while I eat but I don't need a forced one hour meeting every day to be good at my job.
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#9I'm an IT consultant making Swedish style consultant money and I eat out of a plastic box at the office alone while most of my co-workers are usually eating out.
I just think it's a waste of money to be honest. Maybe I'm being too pragmatic because this is far from the first time I hear that it strengthens morale and team spirit to eat together but I'm not paying 90SEK for a buffet when I get full from drinking a glass of yoghurt. It's just such a waste.
Re: Not eating lunch with your team every day? You're missing out.
#10My team cooks our own lunch in our office kitchen almost every day. We take turns in the kitchen duty. Today was my turn, whipped up some salad with halloumi and a little bratwurst in the grill.
I very much enjoy our lunch hours, gives a chance to not talk about work with your teammates. Looking forward for tomorrow, there's this season's new potatoes (a local seasonal delicacy!) with some salmon on the menu and I don't have to cook.