I betcha a nickle that the fines paid to the canteen would be more than offset by the increase in profits due to worker productivity.

It’s like the time theft myth, the belief that workers will intrinsically slack unless you micromanage them. In fact the opposite is true, when workforces are allowed to chat with loved ones and surf the internet their productivity improves.

Curiously, when a company mandates that 15-minute breaks are taken and lunch is eaten during lunch break (even when workers are obsessive and want to work through breaks) then their productivity improves even more.

But the upper management of companies don’t actually want to manage in a way that data shows maximizes profits.