Campaign Background
JUST A QUARTER OF UK WORKERS TAKE A LUNCH HOUR
Monster.co.uk and Chef Gizzi Erskine Bring Back Britain’s Lunch Hour!
A massive 19% of us take under 15 minutes for lunch and over 10% of us admit to never taking a lunch break! This summer, Monster.co.uk is launching a campaign to 'Bring Back Britain’s Lunch Hour'. Together with a team of Lunch Hour experts including celebrity chef Gizzi Erskine, Monster will encourage UK workers and employers to have a full hour for lunch and take a bit of 'me time'.
A survey commissioned by Monster found that those of us working in retail and education take the shortest breaks, with finance taking the longest. While on our breaks, the majority of us choose to catch up on personal e-mails and phone-calls which means never leaving our desks. When asked what we'd ideally like to be doing on our lunch break, 22% answered reading, with the power nap a close second (20%). Meeting friends is also a popular ideal, but unsurprisingly less than 1% of us think that working is a good way to spend our break.*
This site aims to inspire people to take their lunch hour and features advice, tips and ideas from a range of experts including easy to prepare power lunches from celebrity chef Gizzi Erskine, nutritional advice from Fiona Hunter and life-coaching from Carol Ann Rice. Visitors to the site can download a free guest pass to Fitness First along with lunch time work out advice from top personal trainer Kevin Hubble. The site also allows workers to share lunch time recipes and ideas as well download exclusive lunchtime offers.
Monster believes the lunch hour is the time to enhance work/life balance by spending time away from the desk. Eating good food, learning something new, reading, exercising or just relaxing, will enable smarter working in the afternoon.
