Ms Clark adds that the benefit to people working from home is that it may mean they are adopting a more diverse diet.
“We are all quite predictable in the food choices we make within a working week,” she says. “Many of our decision-making processes become automatic, and default towards the same chicken sandwich, from the same shop we walk past everyday.
“So it’s an opportunity for people to take a step back, and think ‘now I have access to all of this food in the kitchen’.”
Business psychologist Stuart Duff, of firm Pearn Kandola, agrees that having video lunches with colleagues can be very beneficial for home workers.
“As most of our interactions are now in formal video conference meetings, we miss having opportunities for the fun, ‘spontaneous’ conversations with each other,” he says.
“Having a social lunchtime increases opportunities for spontaneous conversations, which in turn builds and maintains trust between colleagues.”
Wealthsimple’s UK community manager Abby Capper says that home-working staff enjoy the Zoom lunches, and that she also organises breakfasts.
“Everyone loves getting on a call, and not talking about work,” she says. “It encourages people to take a break. As people have been working from home the hours merge into one.”
