Do you remember your very first time in an office? The realisation that you wouldn’t get another six-week summer holiday for 40-odd years. I digress.

For ten youngsters aged from one-to-13 years, today has been their first taste of what working in an office is like. Here are the views of my daughters of what the Speed workplace is like, and what sort of thing I actually do all day, in their own words.

Freya (age 10)
The thing that surprised me about this office is that it’s not like lots of other offices. This office is bright and cheery I love the office board – it has lots of pictures and cool stuff on it. What didn’t surprise me was that all the people in the office are usually at computers or on phones, but I still love this office.

What I think PR companies do is get journalists to write about them to make them more popular. The PR company can do this by computer, telly and lots more.

I think the thing that makes me buy things is mostly my friends, they buy it then tell me about things, so I want to go and buy them.

Ellie (age 11)
The thing that surprised me the most about the office was that the office wasn’t just rows of computers. The office has a reception, meeting room, kitchen and then came the rows of computers.

Speed helps lots of different companies get publicity. The people also help companies get more customers.

The office is in some ways very different from a school and in others not so different. The office is quieter then a school and more intense. It is like a school because everybody knows what there doing and you have to be in by 9am.

What influences me the most on what to buy are usually my friends. My friends recommend things to me but I also look at what they’re wearing and what they talk about.