The bacon sandwich run is a City of London ritual for hungover traders who stumble into the office late on Friday mornings. It’s also yet another casualty of the new normal of hybrid work.

Trading floors across London’s financial districts are packed again, as the City has opened up. But as Barclays, Goldman Sachs and HSBC are among banks asking staff in markets units to come in at least four days a week, traders tell Financial News that trading floors have become ghost towns on Fridays.