News Finding: That seems to continue in today's workplaces."
Paper Finding: Methodologically, the flexibility that was offered by the close interest demonstrated by the firefighters permitted the first author to ask a wide range of questions for understanding workplace eating in broader organizational contexts.
News Context: "Eating together is a more intimate act than looking over an Excel spreadsheet together. That seems to continue in today's workplaces." Given the findings, organizations would do better to consider their expenditures on cafeterias as investments in employee performance, Kniffin says.
Paper Context: The exceptional case of the veteran vegetarian firefighter who joins in collective eating-with his own food-presents a strong illustration of the role of commensality within firehouses. Methodologically, the flexibility that was offered by the close interest demonstrated by the firefighters permitted the first author to ask a wide range of questions for understanding workplace eating in broader organizational contexts. More specifically, the first author stated in several of the interviews that a goal of the ethnographic visits involved "asking all kinds of questions to figure out the right questions to ask" in the department-wide questionnaire.