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Eating lunch at your desk: sign of the hard worker, or 'too familiar'?

Even though I work from home, I often eat at my desk; and I'd say I gobbled down breakfast, lunch and dinner at my desk many a day while working in previous jobs as an investment banker and a dotcom wonk. And while I've heard many critics of long lunches I've never, not once, heard a criticism of the keyboard-accessorized lunchtime.

Until this weekend, when the Sunday New York Times took up the subject. Stephen Viscusi (owner of a Manhattan headhunting firm) finds it not just annoying and occasionally smelly but "too familiar." Next thing you know, Stephen, your employees will be putting pictures of their spouses on their desks and talking about how cute their new babies are. Or, YIKES, seeing one another outside the workplace. I mean, really. You'd hate to have familiarity at the office!

Putting aside the germiness of the average desk, really, how does it affect a person's economic output? Assuming you're not able to bill hours for lunches and you're not chatting up clients, which is more effective: eating out or dining al desko?

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