Ping! It’s 6am and your boss is firing off a slew of emails from the (dis)comfort of their Peloton bike. Messages begin piling up in your inbox at such a speed that the only option is to brush the sleep out of your eyes, locate the nearest source of caffeine and get going.
According to a report in The Daily Telegraph earlier this week, civil servants working at 10 Downing Street are facing a scenario not unlike this one. Rishi Sunak’s staffers, a source told the paper, are having to arrive at No 10 “hours early” in order to get on top of their work in line with the prime minister’s early bird tendencies.
