When Sam, 26, spent a month in Spain this northern summer, he didn’t plan to let his manager know he had left the country. That was, until a colleague let slip on his whereabouts a week and a half in, during a Zoom call. Sam says his manager “just told me to make sure I got all my work done”.

He certainly did. Between an hour of yoga and meditation every morning, an hour-long walk after lunch, more yoga in the evening and dinners out with friends at night, Sam reckons he did about three hours’ work a day – but says that this was more than enough time to make sure that he pulled his weight.

The Telegraph London