Pros and cons of office smoke breaks

From Monday to Friday boils office life. During this period, the phrase "so I'm on a smoke break" sounds sometimes several times per day. Most often under the "smoke break" is understood as another dose of nicotine ( "because of the nervous"), or just a short break for 5-10 minutes. Frequent breaks - the main "motivator" to continue or chief "Killer" productivity? Let's face it.

"Pros" working "smoke break":

• Short breaks as a stimulant: they make you more productive, helping to switch between tasks and do not deplete the nervous system.
• Communication as a generator of ideas: communicate with your employees, subordinates and the people around you helps you find frequently unexpected but excellent solutions for problems over which you have more than one day "break" his head. In addition, you can exchange ideas and generally learn something new is window with "chat" on the desktop. Remote communication is good, but nothing - fortunately or unfortunately - you can not replace long regular human "live" communication.
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• "Movement is life:" Use a short break in the warm-up, to stand up and walk, do some exercise to relieving fatigue spins and eyes. Sedentary lifestyle associated with office work itself will not not go anywhere; and changes should start small. At least a few strokes of his arms and the extra 100 steps up the stairs instead of the elevator office ladder.
• A break from the "digital noise" Skype, mobile phone, laptop, work and personal chat, news feed, new statuses in social networks and image Instagram 15 hours a day flicker in front of your eyes? "Smoke break" - the possibility of all this off and just go to the park near the office or even on office terrace / balcony / playground in front. Look around. To be alone with his thoughts even in the heat of the day. "Disconnect" (we all live in a "connected" world that never sleeps and does not give your brain a good rest never, except in 6-8 hours when we sleep).

"Cons" of breaks here, unfortunately, much more common:

• "Let's go have a smoke" Actually, in order to justify its name, 80% of the "smoke break" actually dedicated to smoking. Forget about "light" cigarettes and their lungs at the same time: there is no sense in that you walk in the room and there on simulators something portray to work out the cost of the monthly subscription if you continue to smoke in the office, "because the work is nervous."
• Caffeine and "energy": We have already mentioned that during the day should drink plenty of clean waterRather than injected into the organism of coffee mixed with a variety of non-alcoholic and low alcoholic stimulants. Caffeine and the "chemistry" of the tins with all sorts of "redbullami," "Jaguar" and "beer mixes" not only goes around comes around your liver and kidneys, but also It accelerates the removal of fluid from the body, Raises blood pressure, increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes, reduces the overall efficiency and ability to concentrate. Employers who instead of coolers with mineral and purified water in their offices continue at every turn installed coffee machines vending "canned energy", make the most prolonged crimes against its own employees, which can only be imagine.
• "Go call" We got up from the computer - take it into the hands of a smartphone and over again in a circle: a couple of calls, a couple of social networks, the load on the eyes and other "bonuses" in the kit. Sometimes it seems that Take away from the office worker phoneTo which he constantly "glued", - he / she just does not find something to do. And around the life goes on, among other things.
• Fast food "on the go" instead of the lunch break: The use of "smoke breaks" in order to "intercept" on the go a slice of pizza, bar from a vending machine with all sorts of "snack" or incomprehensible readiness hotdog for 2-3-5 years a constant feeding practices "haunt" you gastritis, ulcer, chronic disorders digestion. On your work is not accepted to go to dinner and do a full lunch break? Throw this job and as soon as possible.
• Gossip and rumors instead of communication: Somehow, in the understanding of the office staff, "communication" and "communication" often look like gossip of those who work in the next section, as the exchange of news from the world of politics or "scandals" of talk shows and "yellow" editions. Think about what you spend your time and to what level gradually "go down," if your "smoke breaks" suddenly become a time for "rumor-mongering" to colleagues, bosses and celebrities.

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