Just 1 in 5 workers eats lunch at their desk, according to the results.<\/p>\n
Workers in tech:<\/b><\/p>\n
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The longest and shortest lunches<\/b><\/p>\n Some workers reported longer lunches than others — 59% of people in design and 56% of people in communications said they take lunch for an hour or more.<\/p>\n Design:<\/p>\n Communications:<\/p>\n People in product and operations were most likely to say they eat lunch at their desk (27%).<\/p>\n Product:<\/p>\n Operations:<\/p>\n Young workers are more likely to take longer lunches<\/b><\/p>\n Fifty-eight percent of workers 18 to 25 and 26 to 30 take an hour or more for lunch — the longest of any age group. Only 14% and 17%, respectively,\u00a0stay at their desks for lunch.<\/p>\n 18 to 25:<\/p>\n 26 to 30:<\/p>\n The rate of those who eat lunch at their desks increases with age, hitting a high of 29% among those 51 to 60.<\/p>\n 51 to 55:<\/p>\n 56 to 60:<\/p>\n The figures above are from a Sept. 29 reading of the query, which includes the responses of more than 10,000 workers across the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It may seem like everyone around you is shoving food down their throats while glued to their desk chairs. That’s not actually the case. In fact, 53% of workers in tech say they generally take an hour or more for lunch, according to the latest results of an ongoing query by Comparably. That’s more than … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[69,110,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/nt.png\")
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