How much time are you allowed for your lunch break?

[mikeymikec]

Please can people include what your job is and where you are in the world.

I'm self-employed, so "allowed" doesn't really come into it.

(In hindsight I would have set up a poll. Oh well)

 

[Broheim]

I work in IT in Denmark, I just take as long as I feel like. I don't actually think there is a set amount, legally there is a minimum (30 minutes per 4 hours or something like that) but nowhere in my contract are breaks mentioned.

 

[MustISO]

Our group (IT) is given 30 minutes for lunch.

 

[Raincity]

Executive Director, Personal lunch is what time I can afford to lose for the day. Biz lunch may be all afternoon depending on the nature of the negotiation.

 

[Printer Bandit]

1hr 30min

 

[Farang]

self employed

but I hated working for places that had mandatory long lunch breaks. I'd usually try to eat during a normal break and skip lunch if it was hourly work

 

[biostud]

25 mins, teaching.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

It depends -- if I eat at my desk, 30 minutes to an hour. If I go out for lunch, 1 to 2 hours.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Legally, 30 minutes but my company doesn't provide for taking the time. I do it anyway. They don't like it.

 

[jumpncrash]

Work in IT in canada, I get 30 minutes for lunch and 2 15 minute breaks.

but when nobody is here I can take however long I want really

 

[Kaido]

30 minutes, although I miss hour lunches.

I had a job a few years ago where my boss lived next door to the jobsite and his family was Italian...we'd take 2-hour lunches and have amazing culinary feasts at his house with his family. Those were the days :awe:

 

[EMPshockwave82]

I am supposed to find time during my 12 hour day to eat. There is no set amount of time but if I spend more than 10 minutes eating and not working things start backing up.

I don't think I've gone more than 10 minutes at a time in the last 2 years while working without some kind of interaction needed to keep things moving....... ugh

 

[Bateluer]

We have working lunches.

 

[xSauronx]

5 minutes - 1hr +

it consultant. no rules on lunch, but if i have a lot of work to do i may skip it or get a sandwich or burger and ride to the next customer.

if im at a contract customer all day i generally get time to take a lunch, might be 30 - 60 minutes + depending on where i go, if the customer goes with me, etc.

sometimes i skip lunch and go home early (salary)

 

[chalmers]

Accountant. I work 8-5 and take an hour lunch sometime between 12-1.

 

[Kaido]

I am supposed to find time during my 12 hour day to eat. There is no set amount of time but if I spend more than 10 minutes eating and not working things start backing up.

I don't think I've gone more than 10 minutes at a time in the last 2 years while working without some kind of interaction needed to keep things moving....... ugh

Yeah, I hear that. I've taken working lunches for about 3 years now (on-site IT guy). Yee-haw!

 

[lothar]

I don't get lunch breaks.

 

[tfinch2]

Software Developer - as long as I want

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah, we don't really have a fixed time for lunch. I think that people would get annoyed with me if I took more than an hour, though.

That said, I have the kind of job that requires me to be on call 24/7 with no overtime pay, though. No reason to be jealous of me!

 

[Jumpem]

As long as you want. Most people take an hour. I eat at my desk for fifteen minutes, and keep working.

 

[Triumph]

45 minutes is the scheduled break. Sometimes its less, sometimes it's whatever I want, but usuall it's an hour. I work for the gov't.

 

[stargazr]

30 minutes.

 

[Matthiasa]

As much or as little time as I want. Typically just gone long enough to either get the food I bought or the buy it where I work.
I work at what would qualify as an IT company without getting to specific.

 

[IronWing]

Lunch? How European.

 

[ichy]

As much time as I want. I'm expected to do 40 hours of work per week, no one cares when I do it.