The semi-annual confab is chock-full of cocktail parties, coffee breaks and, during the summer edition, an awards show.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that shorter hours at the office are paid for in fewer coffee breaks and smarter work habits.
Corporations have found that office massages, instead of coffee breaks, make their workers happy and speed up their work rates.
The LBMA sets aside a number of times when attendees can meet with one another, such as coffee breaks and evening receptions.
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In the workplace, lunch is universally taken at exactly noon for exactly one hour, and coffee breaks are taken at 9 am and 4 pm.
The mixing is tedious, but the 60 minutes specified in the recipe can be divided into 10 to 15 minute intervals with coffee breaks in between.
It arranged role-playing games in Vienna, at which civil servants could practise the handling not only of council and committee meetings, but of working lunches and coffee breaks as well.
Small talk before meetings start, coffee breaks, and running into people into the halls all provide a litany of unscripted, unorchestrated interactions that make it difficult for people to package themselves.
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Businesses say the data offer otherwise hard-to-glean insights about how workers do their jobs, and are using the information to make changes large and small, ranging from the timing of coffee breaks to how work groups are composed, to spur collaboration and productivity.
They tend to exclude coffee-breaks and other rest periods from their working-time sums.
But that and a few other small but concrete steps like overlapping lunch breaks and moving coffee stations can improve workplace morale and productivity by as much as 25%, according to Ben Waber, a research scientist and CEO of Sociometric Solutions, a management consulting firm.
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