Two comments: 1. I eat lunch away from work and alone, to give me an hour a day to get away from the people they work with. Not that they're bad people, but I

Two comments: 1. I eat lunch away from work and alone, to give me an hour a day to get away from the people they work with. Not that they're bad people, but I can't take being around anyone for too long a stretch. I get along with my co-workers better when I can take a break from them. 2. I don't know how other employers handle thisn, but where I work, his 4 hours a week less wouldn't fly. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) most computer workers are exempt. They are paid salary, not hourly, and in fact (if you believe our HR department) you are not even allowed to to hour by hour accounting of time with exempt employees. So eating lunch at my desk would be a "thank you, but you still have to work until five" thing. If a server goes down at 2am and I have to come in to fix it, there is no hourly accounting of that time, it is just part of my job. We've tried to sneak flex time or comp time by our HR department, but they don't allow it for exempt employees.