1 The World Is Changing

DOI: 10.4324/9781003092582-3

In the first half of 2020, the Covid-19 virus spread across the world. The pandemic was an extraordinary event in global history as a near simultaneous effect across the world, in a way that had never happened before. It reconfigured how we live our daily lives; the lockdown changed the daily working rhythm as people worked from home and adjusted to a new reality.

For many it forced them to work from home using remote working technology such as video conferencing and screen sharing; it challenged working rituals, most notably the morning commute and the standardised working day of 9–5, both legacies of early 20th-century labour laws. As home became the new workplace, individuals juggled ...

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