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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 distance and wash your goddamn hands” notice has faded from the public space. Whether or not the pandemic was a [[black swan]], our sudden dislocation gave us a rare chance to see what happens in a time of worldwide, unexpected change. Not one [[change manager]] engaged, no [[business continuity plan]] invoked, and yet, in businesses great and small, around the world, the change went through ''overnight'' and without a hitch.
+{{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''.
-Not even in a time of war has the entire citizenry been restricted to private quarters for months on end. And we learned some new things: working from home is pretty cool! [[Pyjamas]]! Zoom! Kids rushing in at embarrassing moments!
+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.
-As COVID receded, [[Thought leader|thought-leaders]] took to [[LinkedIn]] and [[Twitter]] to grapple with ''What It All Meant For The Future Of Work''.
+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!
+As COVID receded, [[Thought leader|thought-leaders]] took to [[LinkedIn]] and [[Twitter]] to grapple with ''What It All Means For The Future Of Work''.
 They fell broadly into two camps: ''everything,'' and ''nothing''.