The UK’s most important office status symbol is the size of your desk, finds a survey from used officer furniture broker wantdontwant.com.

In total, 53% of the 500 businesspeople in the UK interviewed for the survey said that desk size was the key status symbol, beating off job title (29%), car (12%) and clothing (6%).

It also finds that Mad Men, according to 66% of respondents, was the TV programme that “most influences your attitude to your office surroundings”.

The Good Wife was second at 27%, followed by 24 with 6%, and just 1% said the programme was the recruitment industry’s favourite reality show, The Apprentice. This, despite the rare Amstrad phones on offer, although Recruiter suspects it may have something to do with the fact that Lord Sugar never seems to be able to find enough chairs for everyone in his boardroom.