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19th March 2021
Working from home - One year on
As you read this, the chances are you’ll be doing so from home. As we notch up a series of ‘Covid’ anniversaries, Tuesday March 16th created another - one year since the Prime Minister told us that people should work from home where possible as part of a range of stringent new measures. Twelve months on, how have you fared? Working from home – a ‘Marmite’ kind of situation. It’s probably fair to say the nation has been divided in their thoughts about working from home – either ‘loving it’ or ‘hating it’, with some drifting between the two! Casting our minds back to March 2020 there was definitely a novelty factor attached to home working. Social media was full of video clips with unexpected appearances of young children and pets taking the starring role in work Zoom calls for instance. This added a lighter mood in the darkness of Covid, and perhaps in retrospect, keeping things ‘real’ in what was, and remains, a ‘life and death’ situation