Enforcing a healthy work-life balance is not admitting defeat. It's been shown to benefit human mental and physical health. [ Which might sound a bit programmed, might have too much data-speak in it, but it's sincere.

And also not advice Connor follows himself. Both of them are equally prone to coming in early or staying late, a fact Connor has registered as not fitting with the rest of Gavin's careless persona.

A kick out of that? ] Why?

[ Asked from a polite and not at all obnoxious distance, right by Gavin's elbow. ]