Your office is where you will spend more than half of your life, each day working a few hours, and dreaming of better things you could be doing instead for the rest of the day. Nevertheless, you need your gang of friends to survive the corporate culture. So hunt around on your work floor and ensure that you have these 10 pals who will make work a bit more fun.

The slave: If you can’t find yourself a work husband, get yourself a work slave (but don’t call them that!) This is the friend who will fetch you coffee, give you the gossip and lighten up your Mondays.

This is an important friend. She knows all about who is being hired and who might be fired. So make sure you are in her good books.