Working from home becomes part of the permanent employment landscape

COVID-19 didn’t invent working from home, but it did transform what had been a little-used article of the “flexible workplace” into the centrepiece of the future of work.

Over successive decades, advances in technology, the holy grail of “work-life balance”, the shifting life and career priorities of Gen Ys and their successors, and the structural transformations wrought by the digital economy have presaged sweeping changes to the nature of work.