When construction workers start taking breaks from work to keep from

Cycle of Events:

Workers take breaks.
Work piles up and manager puts additional pressure and makes them work harder.
Workers start taking more and longer breaks.
Work would pile up even more ... (and so on...)

Which of the following is true for the cycle to take place:

A. Managers discourage workers from taking any kind of breaks, even for preventing burnouts, during working hours.

Whether managers encourage or discourage breaks is irrelevant. Workers do take breaks and the cycle results.

B. Many workers do not take work breaks and do not believe that work breaks help them increase their productivity.

We are talking about those workers who do take breaks. This is irrelevant.

C. Many construction companies do not deduct money from workers’ wages for taking frequent breaks from work.

Wages are irrelevant.

D. Construction companies whose workers do not take frequent breaks have good gyms where the employees can work out and evade burnout.

Other ways of avoiding burnout are irrelevant. We need an option that is true to make the cycle happen.

E. When managers estimate timings to complete a project, they do not account for breaks taken by workers.

Correct. Workers take breaks to avoid burnout. Then managers put additional pressure. What if these breaks are accounted for in the timing? Then the managers would not need to put additional pressure since the work would not be piling up. The breaks would be accounted for. Hence the cycle would break there itself. So it must be true that managers do not account for breaks while estimating timings to complete a project.

Answer (E)