{"id":4643,"date":"2018-08-23T16:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2019-01-16T23:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:35:30","slug":"heres-who-takes-the-longest-lunches-in-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/heres-who-takes-the-longest-lunches-in-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Here’s Who Takes the Longest Lunches in Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most common perceptions of working in tech is that you work 24\/7. And for many people that’s true. But there\u00a0is a surprising percentage of people who manage to take at least an hour for lunch every day.<\/p>\n

Overall<\/b><\/p>\n

Fifty-two percent of people in tech take an hour or more for lunch each day, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably. Twelve-percent take 45 minutes, 15% take 30 minutes and another 21% eat at their desks while working. More than 10,000 people in tech companies across the U.S. responded to the survey.<\/p>\n

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Engineers do it best<\/b><\/p>\n

From a department perspective, the results were even more interesting: people who work in engineering have the highest rates of taking an hour or more for lunch (55%), and just 19% of them say they eat at their desk. People in operations, on the other hand, have the lowest rates of taking an hour or more for lunch (44%) and the highest rates of eating at their desk (27%).<\/p>\n

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Operations<\/p>\n

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Men take longer lunches than women<\/b><\/p>\n

According to the survey, men take longer lunches than women (54% of men take an hour or more\u00a0vs. 49% of women). Women are slightly more likely to eat at their desk (24% vs. 20% of men).<\/p>\n

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The cities where people take the longest and shortest lunch breaks<\/b><\/p>\n

The Southwest is decidedly better at taking at least an hour for lunch. People in Houston had the longest lunches (59% take an hour or more) while Phoenix was close behind with 55%.<\/p>\n

The Northeast was the worst, with Boston taking the cake. Forty-seven percent of people there take an hour or more, and 26% eat at their desks.<\/p>\n

Houston<\/p>\n

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Phoenix<\/p>\n

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Boston<\/p>\n

\"boston\"\u00a0Results are as of Aug. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most common perceptions of working in tech is that you work 24\/7. And for many people that’s true. But there\u00a0is a surprising percentage of people who manage to take at least an hour for lunch every day. Overall Fifty-two percent of people in tech take an hour or more for lunch each … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[69,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643"}],"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=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6406,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/6406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}