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The King is treating his birthday as a working day, visiting a new food hub in south London and conducting a virtual opening ceremony for another, on Merseyside.

Quoting Health and Safety Executive figures, the report says depression, stress and anxiety led to 17 million working days being lost last year, costing the economy £5.2 billion in lost output.

In an average working day, Claudia Bowring has to play the role of detective, estate agent, family mediator and, occasionally, grief counsellor.

And the "right to switch off" phones, emails and texts at the end of the working day won’t necessarily be a "right" after all.

“Even on a working day I saw films being shot in the workshop,” says Subir Bose, a tram company worker who retired in 2022 after 39 years of service.