Lunch Breaks Now Luxury: Gen Z Skips Meals, Bosses Judge
By June 2025, ezCater's divine revelation hit the workforce: your $108.68 weekly work lunch habit, up 23% from last year’s casual $88, is devouring your paycheck. Millennials and the ever-guilt-ridden Gen Z – 110% more afraid than their elders that bosses will spot their scrap of freedom called 'lunch break' – are eating less and skipping more, making 'hangry' the new corporate mood. VP of People Robert Kaskel warns skipping lunch causes 43% longer task times and a quarter less chitchat, turning office camaraderie into a ghost town simulating productivity in this 'hardcore 2025 work era.'
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When eating a sandwich becomes a hostage negotiation with inflation, you know the workplace has officially entered the no-lunch zone. Congratulations America, your $100+ weekly meal ticket just turned into a guilt trip and a hangry epidemic.
Skipping lunch used to be a teenage rebellion, now it’s an adult survival tactic sponsored by inflation and micro-managers judging your lunch break like it's sneaking out after curfew.
Gen Z feels guilty taking lunch breaks because their bosses look at them like they’re breaking into Fort Knox armed with a PB&J. Meal skipping: the new office productivity hack that backfires spectacularly.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 10/20/2025 | Author: Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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