Daily Mail and was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals. The planned issue was 100,000 copies but the print run on the first day was 397,215 and additional printing facilities had to be acquired to sustain a circulation which rose to 500,000 in 1899. Lord Salisbury, 19th-century Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, dismissed the "Daily Mail" as "a newspaper produced by office boys for office boys." By 1902, at the end of the Boer Wars, the circulation was over a million, making it the largest in the world. With Harold running the business side
Boys and Girls (The Office) few weeks." M. Giant of Television Without Pity gave the episode a positive review and awarded it an "A–". Brendan Babish of DVD Verdict awarded the episode a "B" and called it "a solid but uneventful" outing for the show. Elements of "Boys and Girls" have been analyzed in a legal context. Jan's threat to have the warehouse closed if the employees unionize is unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. American Rights at Work analyzed the episode and noted that "the show served up the hard truth about how far employers will go to stop their employees