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In many ways, “bring your own premises” is really just the logical next step. This is probably where the COO wanted to take things anyway. In any case, COVID has let the genie out of the bottle: just as we found [[BYOD]] an unexpected blessing<ref>''Some'' sort of subsidy for the cost we bore on the firm’s behalf might have been nice, of course.</ref> BYOOP offers us so much more: we trade a sterilised rectangle of desk-space for our office however we like it. We can have an oak-panelled study, portraits of departed pets and whale music in the background if we fancy it, and no [[chief operating officer]] need care a row of buttons.  

And since we have ''seen'' that possibility, and not just seen it but proven effortlessly, over a sustained period, that it makes us more productive — I mean, who would have ''thought''? — is it any wonder that the thought of slogging, on our own dollar back into a drab central location only to sit at telescreens like Tomorrow People and participate in ''exactly the same Skype calls that we could do from home'', only with a larger screen, better coffee and a guitar handy for those lengthy mutable spells — really doesn’t appeal?