Why you need to take a lunch break

Research suggests everyone would be be better off if more of us took a real mid-day break, reports Profit.

“It doesn’t appear to matter whether you go to a food court, or an office cafeteria, or a proper sit-down restaurant, or sit on a bench with a sandwich; what matters is that you take a break,” writes author Graham F. Scott.

Read: Employees are overworked, burnt out

A University of Toronto study finds that deciding what you’re going to do with your time away from your desk is the most important component of a proper lunch break.

“Spending it with colleagues—where you just end up talking about work all over again—often didn’t appear to have the same restorative powers.”

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