‘It would be a shame to go back to normal’

May 30, 2020 | In the news

In the midst of lockdown, all the talk was of what would change for good. We’d be working from home, Zooming, biking, reverting to peasant lifestyles, jigsawing and online pubquizzing forever. As we emerge (I know, but be positive), it’s of how soon the old normal, perhaps normal +, will return. More time in cars and less on trains and buses, can’t give up being touchy-feely it’s hard-wired via evolution, we need to be in offices or we’ll die alone. ‘It’ll be like putting on an old pair of shoes. A bit tatty and smelly, but oh, so comfortable’. Have to say, I hope many will stick with and wear-in the not-so-comfortable new ones. Which, while shiny and new, have been kind-of fun, don’t you think?

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

“The working-from-home illusion fades”

Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.