Lockdown has catapulted the issue of long hours in the City to the top of the agenda, with tales of burnout and breakdowns emerging from across the banking, legal and consultancy sectors.

Former KPMG partners Maggie Brereton and Ina Kjær were already convinced that there was a better way of working when they quit KPMG in protest at the firm’s handling of a bullying scandal to launch Eos Deal Advisory in October 2019.