All those things are all good things. I don't do them. Patricia Stansbury, owner of Stansbury Staffing Consultants in San Francisco, suggests we take lessons from those who know how to do lunch. But we don't, and we are not going to. The emphasis seems to be on production these days.
Most employers say they want their employees to take a break for lunch.
Even bosses who abuse the lunch hour themselves, like Love and Segale, say they insist their staffs take time for lunch. California law, after all, requires that employees working more than six hours in a day be provided with a half-hour lunch break. And labor unions frown upon a practice that has people working at a time when they usually aren't being compensated. Of course, there are still plenty of people who take the traditional lunch. Business lunches are as strong as ever.