{"id":737,"date":"2024-04-03T15:31:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sense.hr\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:06:29","slug":"do-coffee-breaks-really-increase-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senseworkplace.com\/blog\/do-coffee-breaks-really-increase-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Do coffee breaks really increase productivity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019re an avid clock-watcher, and you shudder every time one of your team members gets up to go to the break room, then you may wish to cover your eyes \u2013 because a recent study revealed that coffee breaks could actually increase productivity by 23%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remove coffee breaks at your own peril<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A study reported by HR News<\/a> revealed that  after a week without coffee breaks, almost 80% of subjects noticed a decrease in productivity. And that on average, they noticed a productivity decrease of around 23%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before you go putting this down to a simple lack of caffeine, the coffee actually had very little to do with the study. Instead, it looked specifically at \u201ccoffee breaks with colleagues\u201d, meaning the time that people spent away from their desks with a workplace buddy. <\/em>Whether that\u2019s drinking coffee, playing ping pong, or engaging in idle chit-chat was kinda beside the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, the coffee is optional. So hooking your team up to coffee-infused drips is probably not going to have the same effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less fun, less job satisfaction, and higher turnover<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s more, the study also discovered that these coffee breaks with colleagues had an impact on job satisfaction, too. In fact, the absence of these coffee breaks led to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n