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Let them eat lunch

Planet Money

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The Lunch Break Law in the 20th Century

A full lunch break tracts with better health outcomes. There's less depression, less burn out, more job satisfaction. Imea, people are just simply happier to take a break during the workday. It's good for their well being. And so perhaps it was inevitable that the lunch break law, born in one public health crisis was suspended in another. France would no longer require people to leave work during lunch.

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