Why, its members wanted to know, should holidays by the sea, or meals with friends, or lazy mornings in bed need defending in terms of improved performance at work? ‘You keep hearing people arguing that more time off might be good for the economy,’ fumed John de Graaf, an ebullient seventy-ish film-maker and the driving force behind Take Back Your Time. ‘But why should we have to justify life in terms of the economy?
