According to reports, investment bank Goldman Sachs is trying a new approach to help its staff struggling with the burden of earning their multi-million-pound bonuses.

The bank has hired a cartoonist. "The cartooning workshops that Simon Ellinas runs for stressed-out executives are always tremendous fun," a note from the artist claims.

"Participants get to draw caricatures of each other and create cartoon characters in their own strips. The results are hilarious and the workshops act as an ideal and unusual form of team-building."

Ellinas, who lists O2, ITV and Heinz as clients, charges upwards of £1,000 a day. Goldman Sachs' London office declined to comment.