If you spend 6-8 hours per day on work, then that leaves fewer than four hours a day in which you have to do non-maintenance activities. Even fewer if you have

If you spend 6-8 hours per day on work, then that leaves fewer than four hours a day in which you have to do non-maintenance activities. Even fewer if you have family or are tending to aged parents, for example. This describes the majority of working age people, particularly in older countries such as the US and the UK. For these people, if they are working at the office with others, this time represents the optimal or most likely opportunity to have some social interaction outside of family.