In the Netherlands, lunch breaks fall short compared to other Europeans. One in five Dutch workers eats at their desk, and we claim the briefest breaks among surveyed countries.
Our average is just 26 minutes—two minutes less than in 2012 and the lowest in Europe. Lunch break champions Portugal (56 minutes) and Italy (52 minutes) show what's possible. Time to catch up! ;-)
This mindset treats lunch as a necessary evil: scarf down two sandwiches and dive back into work.
