Why are men more likely to eat alone at work?

Women make friends on the job in different ways from men, according to a study by European and US academics in the Social Networks journal. They form wider, deeper relationships with each other, in part because they are more likely than men to befriend friends of their friends in the office.

Just after 1pm last Tuesday, I bought a £7.50 chicken salad at the Pret around the corner from my office to test a theory. It wasn't the grim little lunch that interested me.

It was the other office workers hunkered down over their halloumi wraps and egg pots. It was the same at the cafe next door, at another lunch spot down the road and also the Financial Times staff canteen. Sometimes there were more than twice as many single male diners. Sometimes the ratio was smaller. Nowhere did I see more women eating alone than men

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