By Anna Hickey

The advertising and media sector has always harnessed what can only be described as bragging rights concerning the “work hard, play hard, work harder” tendency of the industry.

We all laughed (slightly hysterically) when the EU brought in its Working Time Directive a few years back, and cried with quiet envy for our friends in Sweden who, as national standard practice applied in October, are now only required to work 6 hours a day.

But why are persistent long working hours in the UK still seen as a hard earned decoration of merit? In this day and age, of increased Read full story ›

Source: The Drum