However you choose to use that hour that breaks up your work day, T3 picks six of the best lunchtime iPhone apps to download now.

Best for… planning the future:
UK Jobs
Don’t search for jobs on your work PC. Attach Your CV to this career-enhancing app and retrieve hundreds of relevant vacancies near you.
Price: Free
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Buy this app: Download UK Jobs now

Best for… relieving stress:
Izen Garden
App version of the zen-cultivating executive toy. Choose from four different colours of sand to mindlessly rake and 100 decorative objects.
Price: £2.39
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Buy this app: Download Izen Garden now

Best for… Fridays:
Guinness pub finder
Fancy a swifty? This app, celebrating 250 years of the dark stuff, will point you to the nearest pub and email details to nearby friends.
Price: £0.59
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Buy this app: Download Guinness pub finder now

Best for… escapism:
Hector Badge of Carnage EP 1
This, the finest new adventure game to grace the iPhone, is an old school point ’n’ click puzzler with a gripping plot and plenty of laughs.
Price: £2.39
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Buy this app: Download Hector Badge of Carnage EP 1 now

Best for… gastronomic inspiration:
Wonder-izer Sandwich Builder
The creation of American bread maker wonder, this app lets you build exotic ingredients into your dream butty, then gives you nutritional details.
Price: Free
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Buy this app: Download Wonder-izer Sandwich Builder now

Best for… self-improvement:
Fitnessbuilder
Has 264 exercises you can fit into your lunch hour with instructional pics, vids and workouts based on location, be it gym, office or outdoors.
Price: £5.99
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Buy this app: Download Fitnessbuilder now

Tips for a productive working day

By DR Rob Yeung, Psycologist and author of The Extra One Per Cent: How Small Changes Make Exceptional People

1/ Avoid working for more than 90 minutes without a break.

2/ Learn from our cave-dwelling ancestors, who used to eat small meals and combine work and leisure.

3/ Take ten-minute walks as often as you can to boost your mood and help to restore peak productivity.

4/ Feeling stressed? Do an easy task. It will reset your amygdala, the brain’s stress centre.

5/ Promotion is as much about who you know as what you know. Make time every day to chat to colleagues.