The future of office work: Difference between revisions

{{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 space. The sudden dislocation was it's own Burgess shale: a puncture in a long equilibrium that gave us a rare chance to see what would happen in a time of sudden worldwide ''change''.  

Mark it well: as seismic changes do, this one came out of a clear blue sky. Not one [[change manager]] had been engaged. 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'' without a hitch.  

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 restricted 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 gone a great deal worse.</ref> We learned some new things: working from home is pretty cool! [[Pyjamas]]! Zoom! Kids rushing in at embarrassing moments!