Do you eat breakfast at work?
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Just interested really as it has become a bit of a craze here. Most get in, then spend the first 10 minutes of the day preparing porridge / cereal and eating it at their desk.
I personally do as I don't have time at home in the morning anymore (kids) and would die without a bowl of Cheerios.
Is this acceptable practice at your place of work?
I personally do as I don't have time at home in the morning anymore (kids) and would die without a bowl of Cheerios.
Is this acceptable practice at your place of work?
It's a shadowy area this one!
I ran quite a large company and eventually had to abandon all hot food in the office. People certainly used 30 minutes or so of their working day to eat breakfast - and then hot food for lunch too. My office rapidly became a smelly restaurant with everything from Pot Noodles to curries being eaten. Clients would arrive in the afternoon for a presentation in the board room and we attempted to win their business amidst the smell of dozens of lunches.
I tried various (expensive) air exchange solutions and eventually had to remove cookers and microwaves.
It's such a difficult area and very hard to find a decent compromise. Certainly walking around the office at 9:30 to the 'clink' of spoons and forks over huddled breakfasts is a bit irritating - once people start doing it, it's hard to stop it.
NDA said:
It's a shadowy area this one!
I ran quite a large company and eventually had to abandon all hot food in the office. People certainly used 30 minutes or so of their working day to eat breakfast - and then hot food for lunch too. My office rapidly became a smelly restaurant with everything from Pot Noodles to curries being eaten. Clients would arrive in the afternoon for a presentation in the board room and we attempted to win their business amidst the smell of dozens of lunches.
I tried various (expensive) air exchange solutions and eventually had to remove cookers and microwaves.
It's such a difficult area and very hard to find a decent compromise. Certainly walking around the office at 9:30 to the 'clink' of spoons and forks over huddled breakfasts is a bit irritating - once people start doing it, it's hard to stop it.
Cold food only for me in the office, hot food's a nono I ran quite a large company and eventually had to abandon all hot food in the office. People certainly used 30 minutes or so of their working day to eat breakfast - and then hot food for lunch too. My office rapidly became a smelly restaurant with everything from Pot Noodles to curries being eaten. Clients would arrive in the afternoon for a presentation in the board room and we attempted to win their business amidst the smell of dozens of lunches.
I tried various (expensive) air exchange solutions and eventually had to remove cookers and microwaves.
It's such a difficult area and very hard to find a decent compromise. Certainly walking around the office at 9:30 to the 'clink' of spoons and forks over huddled breakfasts is a bit irritating - once people start doing it, it's hard to stop it.
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