Back to the office?

Today, in the UK we will start to get some real evidence of just how important the office is. As of today, employers can insist we go back to the office providing that essential safety measures are met, and we agree. That's a big couple of caveats, but nonetheless an important change.

I'm genuinely interested to see what happens. I suspect that by now those who have spent the best part of four months away from the office, and are still employed have found out how to operate as well, or maybe even better than they did in the office so functionality is not likely to be the issue.

Here we get to another form of privilege, If you have an office at home, space to work and relationships that support it I suspect the idea of the routine of travelling to the office every day does nothing for you.

If on the other hand, you're stuck in a small, expensive flat with others, it's different. A return to the office might well be welcome.

In the break, we've broken the habit, and our dependency on office…