Reply With QuoteSounds like we need to take long coffee breaks if short ones aren't doing the trick.
Coffee Breaks Don't Boost Productivity After All
A rlly? article:
Rest of this shocking research here:Coffee Breaks Don't Boost Productivity After All
by Charlotte Fritz
The finding: Taking short breaks during the workday doesn’t revitalize you—unless you do something job related and positive, such as praising a colleague or learning something new.
The research: Charlotte Fritz conducted a series of studies on how people unwind from work, looking at everything from long vacations to short bathroom breaks. In one study she surveyed workers about what kind of “microbreaks” they took during the day and how they felt afterward. Microbreaks unrelated to work—making a personal call, checking Facebook—were not associated with more energy and less fatigue, and sometimes even were associated with increased weariness. Meanwhile, breaks that involved work-related tasks appeared to boost energy.
The challenge: Are coffee breaks actually counterproductive? Are we really better off thinking about nothing but work on the job?
http://hbr.org/2012/05/coffee-breaks...after-all/ar/1
Discuss !
IMO, even a 5 minutes break for a coffee is a heavenly time-out to rearrange my ideas and resume my work.
Sounds like we need to take long coffee breaks if short ones aren't doing the trick.
Coffee brakes weren’t created to boost productivity the point is mute.
I want to know how many coffee breaks she took while doing her research.
Construction industry in NY its minimum 15minute morning break.
hahaha! good point !Originally Posted by Moose
Youīve just slapped HBR in itīs face !
Now, more seriously, article points that coffee breaks seem not to help people to re-gain strenght, specially mentally.
The UK mandates twenty minutes per six hours of work, but most employers allow more.
It's in the contract no doubt.....................union contract.
Four hour power nap works for me.
I take breaks whenever i want to. course, there are days where i don't even have a chance to take lunch but that's the way it goes.
I find it funny when I come across research that suffers from “autistic” tendencies in a sense that someone lacking social abilities can’t figure out something that for a “more normal” person would present itself intuitively.hahaha! good point !
Youīve just slapped HBR in itīs face !
My personal opinion on this whole thing is that coffee brakes depending on what work you do maybe doesn’t revitalize you as much as it slows
down the rate of de-vitalization.
This in turn could mean that at the end of the work day your productivity hasn’t gone anywhere whether you had a break or not but you as a person are more energetic. Someone responded to the article questioning the correlation between energy levels and productivity and I tend to agree.
Higher motivation brings with it higher productivity
This TED talk is about motivation:
I'm sort of a chain-smoker - which fits well with a coffee, and boost me - so utter crap article imo.
Me too. More short breaks works better for me than a few long ones. Just enough to reorganize thoughts then back at it.
Interesting note: the FMCSA recently decided to mandate a 30 minute continuous off-duty period on motor carriers hours-of-service to break up any period of on-duty time longer than 8 hours. Oh goodie another rule for me to trip over. We're too stupid, apparently, to want to break without a law to tell us too... Thanks uncle sam for micro-managing my daily life!
"praising a colleague"? Does that include playing pranks as well ?
No ****, it's called a "break" for a ****ing reason. Not a "15 minute productivity boost session", Charlotte you ****ing muppet.
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