Good Grief!

New Scientist is reporting that coffee breaks can actually be detrimental to workplace productivity, especially for men:

Taking a coffee break at work may actually sabotage employees’ ability to do their jobs and undermine teamwork instead of boosting it, suggests new research.

Dosing up on caffeine is particularly unhelpful to men, disrupting their emotions and hampering their ability to do certain tasks, suggests a report by psychologists Lindsay St Claire and Peter Rogers at Bristol University in the UK.

This information was published last Friday, but I wanted to wait until today to post it–thought it would make a good Monday morning coffee break read. Perhaps economists should factor caffeine availability into their productivity indicator calculations.