WFH lunch routine

[Anonymous]

I eat the same thing every day and it’s easy, so eating takes maybe 15 minutes. I refuse to eat at my desk in my home, so I take about 30 minutes to eat, scroll TikTok and decompress.

[Anonymous]

I can make a nice salad in 15 minutes. I often end up eating at my desk if I want to get in a walk. We get 30 minutes for lunch (fed, so it’s unpaid but required, you must be there 8.5 hours or equivalent) and my need for a significant break depends a lot on what I have been doing. If I’m just writing emails and sitting in meetings that aren’t too dense I don’t need the break as badly. Sometimes I will get really deep into my data analysis or whatever and go 4 hours with only a bathroom break and then I just hit a wall and I’m not going to be productive regardless so I go walk for 30 minutes. To be honest I usually have more work than paid hours so I’m generally just trying to do it as efficiently as possible. Sounds like your situation is different but if I had a lot of flexibility I would take enough time to do a real 30 minute workout each day at lunch. I work out before work because I don’t have that flexibility but I would love to do it as a break instead.

[Anonymous]

When I work from home, I take a walk during lunch. When I get back, I usually grab leftovers from the dinner from the night before.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe the number of you who are able to take a walk every day. I did not know this was a thing.

I make the same thing every day (bowl of yogurt, with fruit and low fat granola), takes two minutes to prep. I will prep it between calls and always eat at my desk while I work. If I have nonstop calls all day, I’ll prep it during the first two mins of one call and just call in late and people are just going to have to wait for me. If I took thirty mins for lunch, that would just be an extra thirty mins I need to work into the evening to get stuff done. I do not work hourly and I’m very well compensated, so I’m fine not having lunch carved out. When I worked in the office two decades ago, I enjoyed lunch - but only in order to socialize. Back when I used to have summer jobs in college and I wasn’t friends with people in the office, it felt weird to take a fixed lunch period in the middle of the day where I didn’t do work but just sat and did other stuff - while at work. I’d rather work through:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you work from home, how long do you take for lunch and what is your routine?

I find just gathering and microwaving food, eating, and then walking for 15 minutes takes almost an hour -- 55 minutes today. It feels too slow so I'm wondering how much others do on their lunch break.

Who takes an hour for lunch unless you're an hourly employee and it is required?

I see people on here talking about layoffs and not getting "that promotion" and they don't understand why. I also see people complaining when companies RTO- once the data that you're offline in the middle of the day for 2 hours is put into the system and more people do it, then people get called back in or you become redundant.

If you are glued to your desk check your blood sugar and LDL. A sick employee is more costly to the employer than someone who takes lunch break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you work from home, how long do you take for lunch and what is your routine?

I find just gathering and microwaving food, eating, and then walking for 15 minutes takes almost an hour -- 55 minutes today. It feels too slow so I'm wondering how much others do on their lunch break.

Who takes an hour for lunch unless you're an hourly employee and it is required?

I see people on here talking about layoffs and not getting "that promotion" and they don't understand why. I also see people complaining when companies RTO- once the data that you're offline in the middle of the day for 2 hours is put into the system and more people do it, then people get called back in or you become redundant.

If you are glued to your desk check your blood sugar and LDL. A sick employee is more costly to the employer than someone who takes lunch break.

This is OP. The broader context for my question about lunch is now that I'm fully remote, it's easy to stay inside and sedentary all day, sometimes for multiple days. I've used the flexibility to do things like volunteer at school but my default would be take on more work and sit focused for hours at a time.

It doesn't seem bad in the moment, but I've realized I feel mentally and physically better working less and moving more. For me to be successful, a routine and set amount of time would help. I definitely want to walk after lunch and agree it's good for blood sugar. Hadn't heard about LDL having to do with movement, but it makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Pretty much the same as when I was working in an office. I either heat up leftovers or make a sandwich or salad. I used to pick up food more when I worked downtown because it was easy to pop outside my building--now I have to get in the car and find parking somewhere, so I rarely bother. Sometimes I run errands, like drop off Amazon returns, grab something at CVS, etc.

[Anonymous]

I put my lunch together before my work day starts. I nibble it whenever I get hungry. I take a 15 minute walk around noon.

[Anonymous]

Ain’t canned soup or cottage cheese with fruit or a sandwich it takes five minutes to put together and I usually work through lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you work from home, how long do you take for lunch and what is your routine?

I find just gathering and microwaving food, eating, and then walking for 15 minutes takes almost an hour -- 55 minutes today. It feels too slow so I'm wondering how much others do on their lunch break.

Who takes an hour for lunch unless you're an hourly employee and it is required?

I see people on here talking about layoffs and not getting "that promotion" and they don't understand why. I also see people complaining when companies RTO- once the data that you're offline in the middle of the day for 2 hours is put into the system and more people do it, then people get called back in or you become redundant.

If you are glued to your desk check your blood sugar and LDL. A sick employee is more costly to the employer than someone who takes lunch break.

This is OP. The broader context for my question about lunch is now that I'm fully remote, it's easy to stay inside and sedentary all day, sometimes for multiple days. I've used the flexibility to do things like volunteer at school but my default would be take on more work and sit focused for hours at a time.

It doesn't seem bad in the moment, but I've realized I feel mentally and physically better working less and moving more. For me to be successful, a routine and set amount of time would help. I definitely want to walk after lunch and agree it's good for blood sugar. Hadn't heard about LDL having to do with movement, but it makes sense.

I have FH and I need a combo of drugs, oatmeal, fat free food + 10,000 steps a day to keep mine below 200 😂

[Anonymous]

Usually an hour. But I star early ( 7 am usually) so by lunch time, I need that break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you work from home, how long do you take for lunch and what is your routine?

I find just gathering and microwaving food, eating, and then walking for 15 minutes takes almost an hour -- 55 minutes today. It feels too slow so I'm wondering how much others do on their lunch break.

Who takes an hour for lunch unless you're an hourly employee and it is required?

I see people on here talking about layoffs and not getting "that promotion" and they don't understand why. I also see people complaining when companies RTO- once the data that you're offline in the middle of the day for 2 hours is put into the system and more people do it, then people get called back in or you become redundant.

DP.

It depends on the employee. My company will lose if I have to RTO because I will not do before and after business hour calls like I am currently doing.

I start early at 7am, and I am still working now. It's the only way I can be on some calls. I am this flexible because I am able to take chunks of time off during the day. Otherwise? I'd be working 12 hour days in order to be on calls.

[Anonymous]

I get half an hour and depending on the weather try the walk for about 25 minutes and then grab something that’s easily microwavable or a sandwich and work at my desk while I eat. I really enjoy getting out for that short amount of time.