eat with your family everyday

When I first heard about the "Eat with your family" day, I almost spat out my tea. Coming from a nucleus family that eats dinner and breakfast together almost everyday, I am amused that they have to put aside such a day specially to have dinner with the family.

If I get it correctly, on "Eat with your family" day, companies that have pledged to take part will release their employees early so that they can go home to have dinner with their families. Wait a minute, does that mean for the other working days of the year, employees leaving work on time will still be unable to join family for dinner? Why so? Too long working hours? Too many overtime work? Too long travelling time from workplace to home?

The intention may be good, but it also underscores our lack of work-life balance.

Hmm, will encouraging people to have dinner with family everyday affect our economic output?