The Leisure Economy - Linda Nazareth

This was a free Kindle ebook that I found held some useful statistics on how the technology of modern life is giving us more free time than we believe.  Lots of studies and data though mainly USA biased and pre 2007 (so the financial crisis hadn't hit at the time of publication)

Locn 1388, Interesting point on Work-life balance similar to my experience at Rencol:

Those companies that have initiated programs to provide work-life balance often find that they have a big carrot with which to attract Gen Y graduates. “It’s very competitive to get the right people, and the fact that we as a company embrace the work-life issue is a strong selling point for us,” says Houston Brown. “We have a program where every second week people take Fridays off by working nine hours a day Monday to Thursday. Managers do it too. That’s very popular with Generation Y.”