LONDON: Being too busy at work has become a convenient excuse for neglecting life outside it and, crucially, our relationships with family and friends. But does the relentless “I'm busier than you are” contest played out in thousands of homes and offices every day really ring true?
Or are the red-hot phones and the perpetually harried expressions that invariably blight the conversation of the insanely busy - if they've snatched a two-minute window to talk to you, of course - simply the latest form of the age-old activity of bragging?
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