Did you come into work last week to find someone had superglued your mouse down or covered your entire workstation in clingfilm?

Probably not. Office pranks, larking about, near the knuckle banter were all part of an era when a more laissez-faire attitude to work existed. Today’s employees are expected to be focused, industrious and responsible.

Fifteen years ago The Office exulted workplace pranks in the shape of the fractious relationship between Martin Freeman’s bored, mischievous Tim Canterbury and Mackenzie Crook’s humourless, geeky Gareth Keenan. It culminated in one classic episode with Tim encasing Gareth’s precious stapler with his name on it in jelly.