Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Eating Together Can Work
There are many opportunities for colleagues to eat together – holiday parties, team lunches and quiet get-togethers in restaurant booths with trusted colleagues – to name a few. Scientific research indicates that eating together does great things for our mental wellbeing and performance, and design and work policies can support joint meals throughout the year. Eating at our individual desks provides us the calories we need to persevere through our work day (actually, sometimes too many calories for that, a topic for a different article) but not the informal interactions with colleagues that build interpersonal bonds, increase morale, and generally satisfy our need as a social species to talk to others when we want or need to do so that come from eating together. Shared eating areas can be particularly important spaces for employees to get to know each other, which can be important as management practices evolve. Eating away …
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