

If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter called "If You Only Read 6 Things This Week". To comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Capital, please head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter. Flip It has an adhesive strip on the bottom of the unit so it becomes stationary when in use. What does your lunch look like? Show us on Twitter with the hashtag #BBC aldesko. Flip It is the only office supply item of its kind. You should be as strategic about your lunch hour as you are about your day in general, says Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and author of Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant How to. People are trying to break the thing of working longer hours, but there is a traditional mentality that if you’re not present you’re not working as hard,” she says. “People tend to work long hours in São Paulo so it makes sense to take an hour for lunch and get out of the office.

“Most companies offer meal tickets –credit for food as part of their work package – so people tend to go out for lunch. Rinaldi says her routine is not typical in Sao Paulo, where lunch is often the main meal of the day. Her business partner Natascha does the same “because it saves money and we’re both health conscious,” says the 34-year-old. Eliza Rinaldi, prepares healthy ingredients at home and assembles her lunchtime meal at the office, a content agency in central São Paulo where she works as communications and content director.
