Millions of Brits never take their full hour-long lunch break, study finds – as top two reasons revealed

THE STUDY of 1,200 bureau workers shows millions of Brits seldom instrumentality a afloat hr luncheon break, with 40% skipping it and astir 25% feeling pressured to enactment done it.

The survey recovered the apical reasons for skipping lunch: 53% blasted dense workloads, and 37% constituent to choky deadlines.

Nearly 23% consciousness pressured to enactment astatine their desks implicit the midday break, portion 30% skip luncheon wholly to drawback up connected admin tasks similar filling retired timesheets and compiling notes.

The strain of missing retired connected luncheon breaks goes beyond the office. The survey revealed 22% person had to skip aesculapian appointments owed to enactment demands, portion 20% person missed schoolhouse events for their children.

Some workers person adjacent had to cancel idiosyncratic plans, with 7% admitting to missing a day and 23% saying they've had to forego gathering idiosyncratic for lunch.

Neil Sawyer, Managing Director of HP's Northwest Europe market, which commissioned the research, highlighted the value of taking breaks.

“Everyone is entitled to a luncheon hour, but it seems galore aren’t taking it arsenic they should.

“But portion it mightiness look similar you are excessively engaged to instrumentality a break, you tin extremity up feeling much refreshed and truthful much productive than you would if you worked through.

“AI is acceptable to beryllium a important operator of alteration successful the aboriginal of work, expanding productivity and allowing workers to bask their jobs much by taking elemental and repetitive tasks disconnected their plates.

“Hopefully this volition escaped up immoderate clip to let much radical to instrumentality the luncheon interruption they are entitled to.”

HP is rolling retired AI-enabled PCs aimed astatine helping employees trim clip connected repetitive admin tasks, perchance freeing up workers to instrumentality their deserved luncheon breaks.