Official figures showing which poor unfortunates have to work Christmas Day are remarkably silent about advisers.
It is well known that a Friday afternoon shift in financial advice is a quaint throwback to the Victorian era and yet it still appears on many an adviser’s timesheet. The same goes for Jesus’s birthday.
Rumours abound that the Office for National Statistics was so baffled by a 99 per cent attendance rate for the nation’s advisers on 25 December that its staff went to Apfa for “guidance”.
Advisers were omitted from the ONS’s final release, especially as no one could agree on the actual number of advisers operating in the UK.
Meanwhile, advisers nationwide were on call throughout the holiday.
According to the ONS, about half of the nation’s clergy – 26,000 men and women of the cloth – turn up for work on Christmas Day, weirdly followed by 3,000 boat and shipbuilders and repairers, who account for 38 per cent of their profession.
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