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I can't speak for everyone, but based on my experience, regularly drinking (even lightly) during the day would be likely to cause significant productivity loss. Duh?

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Not true for me. I'll often have a beer or two at lunch. The company itself has developed a high-end beer day tradition every week. I've noticed very little difference in my productivity... except that I'm a bit more relaxed and probably able to focus slightly better.

Of course there is a line to walk between a couple of beer and the three martini lunch.

> Of course there is a line to walk between a couple of beer and the three martini lunch.

That is true for productivity but what about your health? I like drinking as much as the next guy but drinking a couple of beers every day, at work, just to "relax" and "focus better" seems like a bad tactic.

Really? Almost everything I have read indicates that moderate consumption of alcohol (both beer and wine, dunno about spirits) has positive health effects. Heart disease, brain function, blood pressure, etc. all seem to benefit.

You seem to have been downvoted for expressing a true opinion[1]. I'm confused. Perhaps it's because it was in response to a differing opinion, and unsourced; but that seems like a disingenuous double standard when the equally unsourced and completely wrong parent was upvoted.

[1] http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/HealthIssues/1106591095.htm...

I wasn't referring to consumption of alcohol in general, I was referring to doing it at work.

If you moderately drink at work and then drink outside of work, does that count as moderate consumption?

Unless you can hit the Balmer Peak

http://xkcd.com/323/

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