Brown Bag Lunch

A brown bag lunch is an informal opportunity for employees to learn at work. A brown bag lunch is used to convey work information occasionally, but mostly serves to enhance employee knowledge about non-work or job specific issues and ideas. Topics for a brown bag lunch range from viewing slides of a coworker's vacation trip to a visit from a local banker to discuss maximizing the potential return that employees can earn by saving.

Brown bag lunch originally referred to the practice of employees bringing a packed lunch from home or carry-out lunch to an informal learning opportunity in the workplace. Brown bag lunch, as a term, has come to represent any brief informal employee education or training opportunity that is supplied during non-work hours at work.

Hence the name, brown bag lunch, recognizes that these may be learning opportunities that are supplied during the employees' lunch break. Brown bag lunch are also held at the beginning or end of a work day, too, and occasionally, during the evening or weekend.

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