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 {{freeessay|work|working from home|{{image|sheeple|jpg|''Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheeple? {{vsr|1959}}}}}}In its abrupt dislocation, lockdown was a sort of miniature [[Burgess Shale]] —  a sudden, dissonant punctuation in a long, flowing, paragraph of commercial consensus. A rare chance to “beta-test” alternative ways of conducting commercial activity. It would be a shame to waste it, or pay no heed to the lessons it offers.
-COVID came out of a clear blue sky. Not one [[change manager]] was ready or, as it turned out, even needed. The world just ''changed''. No strategies needed presenting, not consultants were engaged, no [[business continuity plan]]s were invoked. There was not time. Around the world businesses great and small, ''coped''. It begs the question what good all those strategies, consultants, [[change manager]]s and [[BCM]] programmes do, but that is another story.
+COVID came out of a clear blue sky. Not one [[change manager]] was ready or needed. The world just ''changed''. No strategies needed presenting, not consultants were engaged, no [[business continuity plan]]s were invoked. There was not time. Around the world businesses great and small, ''coped''. It begs the question what good all those strategies, consultants, [[change manager]]s and [[BCM]] programmes do, but that is another story.
 For ''never'', not even in a time of war, has even ''one'' nation’s citizenry been quarantined indefinitely for months on end, let alone ''all'' of them. We quickly adapted, and quickly learned: working from home is pretty cool! [[Pyjamas]]! Zoom! Kids rushing in at embarrassing moments!