"A gigantic marketing effort aims to intensify feelings of want for commodities, while there are no

"A gigantic marketing effort aims to intensify feelings of want for commodities, while there are no ads for time off."

Ain't that the truth.  Earlier this year I accommodated an employee's request to change his contract to a four day week, but it was surprisingly hard.

I always endeavour to be flexible in such situations, if at all possible, remembering when my sister left her role as a Senior Systems Analyst at Databank to move to Rotorua.  Upon applying for a minimum grade programming job there, and after acing all their tests, she didn't get the job because she wanted a 30-hour work week.  "The fools!", I felt, knowing that her skills and experience would have achieved a lot more in 30 hours than any other applicant was likely to achieve in 40.