How to free up your FREE TIME
The way we spend our time is changing: the traditional nine-to-five, Monday to Friday job is becoming increasingly rare, along with an annual two-week holiday and Sundays spent lounging around reading the papers. We take shorter breaks and have blurred boundaries between work and home, and while that might mean working at the weekend, it can also mean popping out for a run on a sunny Monday morning.
It’s not that we have less free time – in fact, research shows the average person in Britain has around five hours and 49 minutes a day (or 40 hours a week), which is more than ever – although few of us would even realise that. According to James Wallman, author of (Ebury, £9.99), the reason we feel time-poor is because we don’t use our free time very well. You know how it is – if you have half an hour spare, it’s all too easy to reach for your phone or switch your screen to browse social
