[PragmaticPulp]

> 2. Take a break every 45 minutes.

Breaks are good when you're having half-day or all-day meetings. For example, when someone has travelled to the office and you're meeting all day.

For regular meetings with your normal office mates, if they're so long that you need to insert breaks then they should probably have been separate meetings.

Having everyone leave the meeting and then slowly meander back in always takes longer than it should. That 5 minute break can turn into 10, 15, or even 20 minutes as you try to track down the last person who wandered off and then got pulled into something else.

Just make the meetings concise enough to handle without a break. If you have more material, schedule a separate meeting for it.