It seems a lot of things have come unstuck during lockdown.
The office has moved from being an almost invisible fixture, a fact of life of work, to an option. For many, commuting has become an expensive and potentially hazardous choice. Businesses that depend on passing trade have suffered enormously when people stopped passing.
There's been another side of the coin. I heard part of an interview earlier in the week when the person being interviewed was rejoicing that as the office was now optional, a whole new range of jobs could be globally sourced. Businesses have discovered that they can cope without a significant proportion of people they put on furlough. A government committed to balanced budgets had found not just a money tree, but a forest of them.
Our habits have changed.
The way we shop, How we meet. What we buy. How and where we spend our leisure time.
The business, social and economic models we had at the beginning of this year have come apart. In coming apart bot…
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