Nice day at The Office, dear?

Almost two thirds of office workers think the TV programme The Office is a fairly accurate portrayal of their own life at work, new research reveals today.

Of those asked, only 13.5 per cent said the multi-award-winning series with Ricky Gervais as cringe-making boss David Brent, was "not at all" like their own experience of office life.

But one in four said The Office was "a little bit similar" to reality, almost one in two said it was quite similar and one in 10 said it was spot on.

The survey, by architects RyderHKS and magazines Property Week and Building Design, was part of a more general assessment of the trials of office life.