This month BrainDeadAir casts an unfaltering eye on the growing underground jobs market for bodily rentals.

In today's troubled economic climate, life is tough for working families. More and more people are turning to unconventional measures to supplement their income. Some people take on part time work in shops and bars. Some people do additional work from home performing tasks such as data entry and drug dealing. And BrainDeadAir can reveal that a record number of people in Britain today are earning additional income by renting out their body parts.

Mac Stamperson was hired at a rate of £17.80 per hour, by an eccentric billionaire playboy who wanted to use his forearm as a paperweight. A media tycoon and retired iconoclast employed Sandra Videohat to keep her right foot within a distance of 0.3 metres of his at all times. And within the wider public, attitudes are becoming increasingly laid back - we certainly seem to have come a long way since the scandal of Lord Superdrug and the seventeen pensioners he paid to sit on his feet several times a day.

Stamperson claims he first started to explore alternative occupations when an aristocratic family offered him £375 to turn up and stand outside their home watching them carrying out everyday tasks such as housework and domestic abuse. He doesn't mind the work, in fact he much prefers it to his day job as the chief executive of a global wet-wipe and sanitary liquids corporation.

So, what does the future hold for Britain's workforce? A little more standing, a bit more sitting and a hell of a lot more hanging around the place by the look of it.