We were promised a 15-hour working week. What’s the hold-up? | Emma Beddington

More UK companies are about to trial a four-day week, and all employees could soon get the right to switch off. It's still just baby steps

In ancient Greece, Aristotle was big on noble leisure", but modern Greece might need a refresher, having just introduced a six-day, 48-hour working week. Opponents have described the measure as barbaric", an erosion of workers' rights in a country that already works the longest hours in Europe.

I have been thinking a lot about work recently. OK, I am not exactly formulating an incisive critique of the labour market (most of my thoughts are of dinner or pigeons), but I have been wondering why we still do so much of it.