Corona Changes: My Conversion to Working from Home
I am not going to address the big changes. Maybe we will all be nicer to each other post-lockdown, properly value our ‘low-skilled workers’, invest more in our health service and appreciate the inescapability of global threats so as to urgently address the climate crisis. And maybe we won’t. I am not hopeful. But one episode from my life may be relevant to a post-Corona trend. That personal experience More than thirty years ago, I fell off my bike and broke my left arm. It was a serious break with bone poking through skin and required the fitting of two plates in my arm and a four-day stay in hospital. At that time I was commuting into London from Wiltshire, spending four hours a day travelling (on a good day). As a result of the injury, I was advised not to travel for a number of weeks even when I had largely recovered. I worked in legal publishing and, although I had some supervisory duties at that time, most of my work was desk-based, head-down writing and editing. ...