Unfortunately I don’t have enough clear space on my messy desk for yoga, but otherwise happy to know that I work in a state of 80% Zen as regards my employer’s attitude to work / life balance (albeit with a 20% tendency to working 8 days a week).

You can find out your own workplace style at the Work Your Proper Hours Day site (and put yourself on a neat-o google map mashup for a prize). Yes – it’s that time of year again. If you add up all the unpaid overtime people do in the UK, the average long hours worker works for free until this Friday – 22nd February.

That’s one day earlier than last year – progress of a sort I suppose. Anyway, maybe the message is getting through – the bosses are starting to realise that they’re losing some of the most hours from their work / life balance, and the Chartered Management Institute have come out on side for the first time.

I (and hopefully all of us here) will be leaving on time at 5.30 on Friday. Now to work on getting my boss to get the first round in…