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I am living in Denmark working for a famous toy company. I moved from Southern Europe to Denmark a few years ago and the thing that struck me the most was the 20 minutes lunch break (since the schedule is 7.40 hours and 20 minutes of lunch break). I feel it was too rushed and my stomach had hard times adapt to those time frames.

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A tip from my blue collar days, when I also only had a 20 minute lunch: eat a decent breakfast, and pack something like an apple/granola bar that you can quickly snack on at ~2-3 pm. If i try to wolf down food that quickly I just feel ill & sluggish, but eating a smaller lunch & a mid-afternoon snack actually left me feeling better. I continue to do this, it helps avoud afternoon sluggishness.

Although I would miss the rest of break time, I'd much rather work 0.5 hr later in the day and have a brief moment of respite.

That is what I ended up doing as-well, extending my lunch break for about 15-20 minutes. But that in retrospective puts me in the situation where I am left sitting alone in the canteen due to colleagues finishing long before me.

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