How to prevent afternoon & post-work fatigue

Achieving the ultimate levels of wellbeing and work-life balance is an enigma HR is constantly trying to crack.

And whilst workplaces are introducing measures to ease pressures, with subsidised gym memberships, free coffee and flexible work patterns, tiredness still manages to impede lives after work.

A new study in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology may have found the remedy to banish those post-work yawns – and it’s all about how lunch breaks are spent.

The researchers surveyed 100 workers in a range of sectors about their lunchtime routines, and questioned their levels of wellbeing, how much they enjoyed their lunchbreaks and how much they were able to detach from work during their break.