• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    Not eating lunch and taking a break is bad for your health and potentially undermines your productivity. It’s a bad idea all around.

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        8 days ago

        I’ve always noted with a certain cynicism that the old nomenclature for the workday ‘9-5’ adds up to eight hours. Surely these people weren’t missing lunch…

      • Logical@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        This is how it is at my current job in Denmark. Never experienced it before working in Denmark.

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        8 days ago

        In a way it is paid/unpaid either way.

        At the end of the day, the time you spend “for” work includes your transit to and from work as well as the breaks that you take without being able to really do your thing.

        You have to calculate that time against your pay. This is also why working from home shouldn’t be something companies have any doubt about. Taking away the commute time maintains the time you can be productive for the company, while notably shorting your total time spent “for” work.