The diving was outside office hours, but how are you keeping tabs on events that happen while you're at work? Photograph: Dan Chung
Are you allowed to watch the Olympics at work? Some 3.3 million people watched Tom Daley and Blake Aldridge fail to fly in the synchronised diving on Monday. The event took place while most of the UK was having its breakfast, outside normal office hours. But what about those that are squarely positioned when working Britons should be, well, working?
It's alright for some. In our office, for example, there are flat-screen televisions suspended from the ceilings at strategic points, with the sound down, so that we can keep up with the latest news - or the judo - whether we like it or not.
But in plenty of offices a television is not a vital source of information, it's simply a distraction. In previous years when important football games have taken place during the day, bosses have often been persuaded to allow a TV to be brought in or workers to sneak out to somewhere with a big screen. But this time we're talking about hours of sport, day after day, so talking your employer round is unlikely to be quite so easy.
If sporting spectators are frowned on in your office, do you secretly follow the team's progress online when no one is looking, and quietly splutter into your tea when something exciting happens? Maybe you are forced to just check the medal charts when you get a moment. Or perhaps you've been acting out your own alternative games?
