There was a fascinating piece in the Yorkshire Post Life and Style section today regarding eating at your desk. This particular piece referenced breakfast (deskfast), known to be the most important meal of the day, but I think the message within the piece stands true to all meals.
We are one of the worst offices for eating at our desk. A lot of the time we are too busy to go out for a lunch break and so sit and munch while reading emails or creating strategies – good habit – no, not all, in fact really, really bad.
I don’t mind admitting that since adopting a desk-to -eat policy I have put on more than a stone. It’s not necessarily what I eat but the fact that I no longer go for a stroll at lunchtime. I am in that awful collective of people who think that if you leave your desk you are also losing time and time is money.
I know that people think that if you spend a short time away from your desk during the day you will be more productive but I’m not convinced that this is actually true. Also as sad as it sounds to leave my desk would mean leaving my clients and what happens if someone needs something urgently?
Ok, so that’s a bit sad but I do enjoy my job and although we are based in the most beautiful parklands at Nostell Priory Estate Yard we don’t get out and about much. May be this should be something we rectify and try to put into practice over the next few months.
There are going to be a number of changes at Open Comms and we have already decided that this is a time for us to sit down and decide how we want to address some things moving forward. May be ‘deskfast’ and lunch at our desks should be added to the list?