Let Them Eat Cake: Why it's crucial to eat at work
1 year, 11 months ago

Let Them Eat Cake: Why it's crucial to eat at work

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When England’s Food Standards Agency boss Susan Jebb recently compared eating cake at work to passive smoking, office cubicle walls across the land quivered. Employees in Sweden seem to believe this is true: Fika is a daily social event based around sharing food at work – mainly cakes and other sweet dishes. Let them eat cake Indeed, much of the discussion in the wake of Jebb’s comments has focused on people’s inability to resist eating cake or biscuits that have been left out. When the International Labour Organization analysed eating habits worldwide in 2005, it found that a poor or excessive diet in the workplace could decrease productivity by 20 per cent.

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Office food: The annoying, totally rude thing bosses do to their employees while they're eating.
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Office food: The annoying, totally rude thing bosses do to their employees while they're eating.

Slate  

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What eating at your desk says about your working habits
9 months, 1 week ago

What eating at your desk says about your working habits

Live Mint  

If you’re munching on a supermarket meal deal while reading this, well, I probably am too. As one French scholar put it: “A sandwich or salad gulped down in front of a computer screen does not pass as a proper meal.” Only a handful of publications focus on the workday lunch, but studies have almost exclusively used large-scale surveys. Nevertheless, …

Should cake be kept out of office? The UK debates
1 year, 11 months ago

Should cake be kept out of office? The UK debates

Firstpost  

Who doesn’t like cake, especially in the middle of a hectic day in the office? Let them eat cake, says Rishi Sunak According to The National News, Britain prime minister Rishi Sunak opposed the recommendation that people should stop bringing cakes to work for the sake of their co-workers’ health. Also read: Humanity’s future in danger: Experts say why physical …

Employees told they shouldn’t bring cake to the office
1 year, 11 months ago

Employees told they shouldn’t bring cake to the office

The Independent  

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