Work can be rather stressful sometimes, and any good boss knows that helping his or her personnel to destress when at work can help them become more productive and prevent burnout, which helps the employees as well as the company’s bottom-line.

For most individuals, lunch is nothing more than grabbing a quick bite to eat while continuing to work, especially in today’s high-powered, highly stressed technological global market. Unfortunately this does nothing to help refresh or rejuvenate them.

For breaks at work to be effective, there needs to be a change of pace, even for a short time:

  • Perspective: Encouraging your employees to step away from their desks, even for a short time, will refresh them and help them gain perspective, which will aid them in making smarter decisions.
  • Circulation: Sitting behind a desk for hour on end without moving can have a negative impact on circulation, so employees should be encouraged to get up and walk for a few minutes every hour or two to improve circulation and keep from feeling sluggish.
  • Creativity: Sometimes one is just not feeling it, and this can make getting the creative juices flowing rather difficult, resulting in sub-par work being churned out by employees bored with their mundane jobs. Getting up from their workstations and taking a short break can recharge their mental batteries, allowing that creativity to surge again.
  • Productivity: Just because an employee is sitting at their desk does not mean that they are being productive. Sitting for too long can dull their productivity and taking short breaks whenever required can boost it!

Drinking water regularly can also achieve all of the above, believe it or not. When one is well-hydrated one can think more clearly, one has more energy, ones blood is of the correct viscosity to circulate easily providing oxygen to all parts of the body, and one feels more productive.

Smart bosses know that by investing in a water cooler for the office they are affording their personnel the opportunity of getting up from their desks for a short break at the same time as making fresh, chilled drinking water very accessible for them – a win-win situation!