E-mail Replaces the Power Lunch - (A LUX 360 Change of Pace)

Poll Results from Smart Brief on Leadership - Sept 17,2008: What does lunch typically mean for you? (1,370 responses)
•    Eating at my desk while plowing through e-mails -- 859 votes, 62.7%
•    Social lunch with colleagues or friends -- 279 votes, 20.4%
•    Working out at the gym or going for a run -- 110 votes, 8.0%
•    Working lunch with colleagues -- 78 votes, 5.7%
•    Sitting down for a meal with prospective clients or partners -- 44 votes, 3.2%

"We've become slaves to our e-mail. We have to spend lunchtime working down our inbox instead of relationship building with customers. Unless all these e-mails are from customers." Eva Schmatz, president, Summus Limited.

(Could this possibly happen in the land of luxury marketing? HS)