DWF has offered its lawyers the opportunity to buy miniature offices in sheds in their own gardens to enable them to work from home.
 
The firm came up with the scheme after a worker with a long commute couldn't find room in his house for a home office. After an all-nighter fuelled by Red Bull, whiteboard eraser fluid and twiglets, DWF boffins rejected their original solution of remote-controlled avatars made from balloons and opted for the "pre-fitted plug and play cabin" or, as DWF calls it, a "garden office". Or, as its staff call it, a "shed".

Facilites director Karl Warmbold told RollOnFriday the work hut was so "positively received" by Test Subject #42A and was so beneficial for work/life balance that the firm is considering rolling it out to other commuters. Though they will have to pay for it via a salary sacrifice of around £6k.

"It's really helped me reconnect with my family - the Skype connection is perfect from here"

 
DWF is also revolutionising its in-trays. Instead of paying for a large postroom in its expensive new Walkie Talkie premises in London, the firm plans to intercept letters before they reach the building and scan them directly to lawyers, thus freeing up valuable space for more profitable contract-doodling activities.

The firm says the move will also cut down on its PAs' scanning and filing work, making them available for other jobs which, under the new efficiency regime, they will perform until they become hungry at which point they will be drip-fed Soylent Green.