Is there any such thing as a 9 to 5?

Clodagh Finn ponders if the work/life balance is a myth in a world where technology has blurred the lines between business and pleasure

THERE’S always a holiday snap you wish you’d taken. This year, the missed photo op was of a sign hanging outside a (closed) craft shop in Marseilles that read: “Opening hours: Very often”.

I imagine, though, it wouldn’t be hard to convince anyone that the laidback southern French have a whimsical approach to the working day.