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{{freeessay|work|working from home|{{image|sheeple|jpg|''Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheeple? {{vsr|1959}}}}}}COVID’s aftermath will reverberate long after the last “keep your goddamn distance” notice has disappeared from the public | {{freeessay|work|working from home|{{image|sheeple|jpg|''Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheeple? {{vsr|1959}}}}}}COVID’s aftermath will reverberate long after the last “keep your goddamn distance” notice has disappeared from the [[public domain]]. The sudden dislocation was its own [[Burgess Shale]]: it punctured a long equilibrium giving us a unique chance to see what would, and could happen in a time of sudden worldwide ''change''. | ||
Mark it well: as seismic changes do, | Mark it well: as seismic changes do, COVID came out of a clear blue sky. Not one [[change manager]] had been pre-alerted. No opco decks were presented. No [[business continuity plan]]s invoked. Yet, in businesses great and small around the world, unprecedented change went through, overnight, with barely a hitch. | ||
It rather begs the question what good all those [[change manager]]s and BCM programmes do, but that is another story. | (It rather begs the question what good all those [[change manager]]s and [[BCM]] programmes do, but that is another story.) | ||
In any case, never — not even in a time of war — has even one nation’s citizenry been | In any case, never — not even in a time of war — has even ''one'' nation’s citizenry been put in indefinite quarantine for months on end, let alone ''all'' of them. And — it was mostly okay, right?<ref>Of course, a deadly pandemic wasn’t ''okay'', but, all told, it could have been a great deal worse.</ref> We learned some new things: working from home is pretty cool! [[Pyjamas]]! Zoom! Kids rushing in at embarrassing moments! | ||
As COVID receded, [[Thought leader|thought-leaders]] took to [[LinkedIn]] and [[Twitter]] to grapple with ''What It All Means For The Future Of Work''. | As COVID receded, [[Thought leader|thought-leaders]] took to [[LinkedIn]] and [[Twitter]] to grapple with ''What It All Means For The Future Of Work''. |