A coffee break isn’t just a pleasant way to relax at work. It’s essential. If your boss is one of those who doesn’t see the obvious, here are some science based facts that should convince them. A coffee break is a great tool that can boost your productivity, increase focus and help generate new, fresh ideas. Good bosses encourage coffee breaks!

1. 7 ways
to convince
your boss
to a coffee break
SCIENCE-BASED FACTS EVERY BOSS NEEDS TO KNOW
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2. 7 ways to convince your
boss to a coffee break
A coffee break isn’t just a pleasant way to relax at
work. It’s essential. If your boss is one of those who
doesn’t see the obvious, here are some science
based facts that should convince them. A coffee
break is a great tool that can boost your productivity,
increase focus and help generate new, fresh ideas.
Good bosses encourage coffee breaks!
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3. Is 15 minutes coffee
run worth it?
The average office coffee run takes about 15
minutes, but lost time doesn't necessarily mean
lost productivity, according to Positivity Institute
founder and leading psychologist Dr Suzy Green.
In fact, "micro-breaks", to get good coffee or have
it in a nearby cafe, are "absolutely essential for
peak performance”. Coffee stimulates your brain
making it so much easier to do stuff faster!
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4. No more drama, no
more mistakes!
Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine found that that caffeine helped
improve workers' memory and concentration as
well as reducing the number of mistakes they
made. The researchers also suggested that
drinking coffee could help reduce accidents at
work, traffic crashes involving people at the end of
long shifts and even medical errors by doctors on
call for long periods of time.
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5. Take it easy, man!
Researchers at the Seoul National
University discovered that exposition to
coffee aromas influences changes in brain
proteins tied to stress linked to sleep
deprivation. The coffee break can also
reduce the stress levels as it is much easier
to cope with stressful situations with others
who can assist or give advice in your office
environment.
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6. If it’s good enough for Apple,
it’s good enough for you!
Did you know that Jony Ive had a secret coffee
ritual with his team when working on ideas for
Apple? Jony Ive and his elite design team at Apple
are coffee snobs. And rightfully so.
!
Coffee is the fuel that drives their brainstorming
sessions, which are arguably the most crucial
meetings in the design department. These sessions
are where Apple has birthed some of the greatest
products of all-time: the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone,
and the iPad. It’s safe to say – no coffee, no iPhone!
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7. Let’s get together and it
will be alright!
Our brains do need to have a little rest - they just
can't be on all the time. And it's often in the
breaks where you get your creative ideas. And
when people meet in a different environment
than their cubicle or office that’s when the most
creative ideas happen. If you're looking at a
coffee situation, you might have people from
different teams coming together, so you get
some cross-fertilisation of ideas.
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8. The time is right! And
it is right now!
Caffeine works best when served at certain times and
yes those times include the times when you are at
work! Your body works on a rythm and is guide by
what is know as the circadian clock. It is the
hormonal cycle that occurs in your body. The best
time to have coffee in this cycle is when your cortisol
levels drop – that is between 9:30 and 11:30; between
1:30 and 5:00 pm . Needless to say these are the
times most of us are at work and deserve a good
coffee break!
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9. Don’t worry, be
happy! Have coffee!
A study done by the National Institute of Health found
that those who drink four or more cups of coffee were
about 10 percent less likely to be depressed than
those who had never touched the java. And apparently
it's not because of the "caffeine high”. Coke can also
give you a caffeine high, but it's linked to depression.
Caffeine can also reduce stress levels and that is
something your boss needs to know, too.
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10. 7 ways to convince your
boss to a coffee break
There you have it – 7 important things your
boss needs to know about the importance of
the coffee break. After all it is not just a
break… It is a coffee break! And good coffee
makes good coffee break. So maybe it’s also
time to convince your boss you need a good
coffee machine !
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11. Those were
7 ways to convince your
boss to a coffee break
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