Lunch
Joel Spolsky (of Fog Creek and Stack Exchange) advocates for team lunch at work:
The importance of eating together with your co-workers is not negotiable, to me. It’s too important to be left to chance. That’s why we eat together at long tables, not a bunch of little round tables. That’s why when new people start work at the company, they’re not allowed to sit off by themselves in a corner. When we have visitors, they eat together with everyone else.
I completely agree with Joel’s post. One of my favorite things about working for Harvest is that we eat lunch together nearly every day. Our unwritten rule that lunchtime conversation should avoid “work” talk gives us all a mental holiday from any office stress and allows us time to learn something about each other beyond what we do for the company. By the time lunch breaks, I am usually recharged and ready to crush the second half of my day.
(via Marco)
