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Ms Clark adds that the benefit to people working from home is that it may mean they are adopting a more diverse diet.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“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’.”<\/p>\n
Business psychologist Stuart Duff, of firm Pearn Kandola, agrees that having video lunches with colleagues can be very beneficial for home workers.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“Having a social lunchtime increases opportunities for spontaneous conversations, which in turn builds and maintains trust between colleagues.”<\/p>\n
Wealthsimple’s UK community manager Abby Capper says that home-working staff enjoy the Zoom lunches, and that she also organises breakfasts.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n