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Employers have tried wanly to check their work losses by various stratagems—by serving coffee at desks and from pushcarts at factory benches, by setting aside definite coffee periods in the hope that, at least part of the morning, everybody will be at his desk. They find what solace they can in surveys showing that workers are more alert and make fewer mistakes after they get back to work. But for the habit itself, no cure seems to be in sight. In fact, thousands of office workers are taking more & more to the custom of popping out for a cup of coffee in the afternoon as well.