I read an article on lifehacker about Maximizing your lunch hour, and I thought that stressing out about using your lunch break effectively is bearshaving, i.e. treating the never-ending symptoms rather than the cause.
You should be able to take as long as you wish whenever you wish, and work less or more the rest of the day to make up for the time u took or didnt take. And the workplace should trust the people to be responsible for putting in the appropriate number of hours and not police them about when where and how long to take their lunch breaks.
People will exploit the freedom, but these people are NOT the kind of people you probably want to hire or work with anwyay. If they need you to police them, to get things done, then imagine how little gets done when youre not around.
If they lack the internal motivation to work then providing an additional set of rules is certainly not going to motivate them to work, it might force them to work, but thats a temporary state which fades as soon as you look away. In other words they have not learnt to work, they have learnt to pretend to work, to avoid your policing.
And while im on the subject, to hell with standard 9-5 hours. Allow people to set measurable goals and tasks to gauge performance. Keeping the seat warm from 9-5 is no guarantee of any work being done. If they check email and dont get started till 10:30 anyway, then why make them come in at 9, fighting the rest of the rat race at rush hour. Let them take care of things like that from home and come in at will. And why close at 5, it forces people out who were already working on something and might have worked till later. Flex hours rule.
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