Letter: Most workers have little flexibility in their day

From Bryn Glover, Kirkby Malzeard, North Yorkshire, UK

Graham Lawton discusses how to organise your day (12 January, p 34). I nonetheless found myself wondering to what proportion of the working population his remarks had any relevance.

I thought of production line workers required to sustain a constant input from clocking in to clocking off. I thought of teachers, who need to be up to speed 1 second after the 9-o'clock bell; of train and bus drivers and airline pilots; and I thought of my own working life in which my staff and I needed a whole hour of intense preparation before our first patients began to arrive at 8.30 am or earlier.

Recognising that Lawton's presentation may have had its tongue slightly in its cheek, I still wonder: who are these drones who can afford to swan around for an hour or so before attempting to achieve anything and then perhaps take a power nap when they feel like it, or manage to find natural light, or afford to fit in a lunch break at all?