Back to School | Do your staff need some FLARHAL? (and what on Earth is FLARHAL?)

Early September means back to school in the UK, and, with it, a return to work for many exhausted parents.

 As a potential solution, one of those parents has come up with a suggestion for extending annual leave by two days to help everyone readjust - and she's called it FLARHAL: 'feeling like a real human again leave'.

FLARHAL might sound like a new Scandi wellness trend or that vase you'd like from IKEA, but it's actually a concept created by consumer affairs journalist Felicity Hannah, and, while it might seem like a joke at first, has a more serious undertones.

In my opinion, parents should get a statutory extra 2 days off when the kids go back to school so they can have a haircut, hoover the car, go to the gym and sit peacefully for FIVE DAMN MINUTES. We could call it 'feeling like a real human again leave' or 'FLARHAL'.

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