As social media trends go, the soft days off craze is, on the face of it, hardly the most destructive idea to be shared.

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Millions have tuned in to short videos explaining how you can save on annual leave by getting what needs done out of the way on the sly while you are working from home.

As well as presenting the idea that you can go to the gym, do your washing, buy your shopping and sort out any number of things, all in the company’s time, the videos even give techniques as to how you can best exploit your confines.

The videos are presented and framed with a gung-ho, stick it to the man kind of energy as if the employee is morally winning by taking time back from their employer - time that could be spent doing far more fulfilling and necessary activities than their job.

But I’m here to argue that the real........

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