Pilita Clark: Only fools work in August, we need to embrace longer summer holidays

A lot of work done in August by those in the office goes unnoticed when one’s boss is doing what bosses tend to do in August: lie on the beach. Photograph: iStockInstead of going on a hike with friends in the summer sunshine last Sunday, I sat inside and grumpily wrote an article that had to be finished by Monday. Annoyingly, the only person I could blame for this was me.

Or so I thought. Two weeks into the programme, I am having a rethink and, as things stand, I am coming to the view that only idiots work in August. When I get to my desk I am not surrounded by a sea of empty seats but by companionable colleagues who, unfortunately for them, I am prone to distract. This distraction takes time that might otherwise be spent doing things like finishing articles due in on a Monday.

Elsewhere, I have heard familiar gripes that remind me how good it was to take all my summer holidays in August last year.

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