January 2022
Beginner
136 pages
4h 15m
English
‘Covid has re-shaped our working lives, our economic contributions and our well-being, certainly in the short-term but probably in the longer-term too. Whether this change is for the better is one of the key questions of our time’, Andy Haldane, former Chief Economist at the Bank of England, 14 October 2020.
Predicting what might happen in the long term is a dangerous game as we are never quite sure what is around the corner. Back in the 1980s, futurologists were predicting that many of us would be working in ‘electronic cottages’ by the turn of the millennium. But that never happened. Instead, there was a slow, but steady, detachment of work from place. The change ...