Robyn Riddet

On an average workday, I get up at about half past five in the morning. I get the Tube to the gym, which is at Bankside, behind the Tate Modern. I do, usually, two classes there and then after that, I get a coffee on the way to work at my nice Australian-style coffee shop, it’s called Lantana.
Then I get the bus into Liverpool Street in the city. I get to work at about half past eight. I usually shower at work. Our work’s great! We’ve got cycling facilities, and showering facilities, so it’s quite modern. It’s quite a modern kind of workplace where there’s sort of flexible hours, and they kind of provide things that I guess everybody in the modern workforce wants.
Once I’ve showered, I grab my laptop and start work. I don’t actually have an office to myself. I work in an office where it’s all open-plan, like a WeWork-type office, where you just find somewhere to sit for the day on a laptop. They’ve got these little pods that are almost like airline pods that you can sit in. Or there’s actually one seat that’s like an outdoor swinging chair that you can sit in and it overlooks Bishopsgate, which is really nice. Unfortunately, for most of my job I can’t really sit on a laptop in a sofa-type chair. So, I usually find sort of a desk that’s more like a kitchen table, and I set my laptop up and I’ve got a little second portable screen. So, I set myself up somewhere, near someone that I know. But the floor is basically “sit anywhere you want”. There [are] several different departments that share this floor.