My childhood nickname was Bod, it's sometimes funny when I go back to suasage roll city (Livi), and hear someone shouting it at me. Sometimes the tone still invokes that instinctial flight mode, before I realise I don't have to now.
Lockdown has been mostly good, I have a 5 year old so I haven't been out the house after 7:30pm pretty much since he was born anyway. So the only difference is I save 2 hours in commuting each day, which 1 goes to excersise, and 1 to family. I really like being able to nip down stairs for a coffee break, or lunch sitting outside with family in the garden (no firepit, makes the washing stink). I've ironically spent more time outside during lockdown than before.
I spend some time at work most weeks chatting to folks making sure they are coping, and almost everyone, including me don't want to go back to the pre-lockdown 'normal', instead prefering the work life balance WAH provides. My only measure is, 'is the work getting done', so folks are pretty free to work whatever hours they can manage through the day. I haven't noticed any drop in productivity from anyone, in fact each and every one of them is awsome.
If as a society we try to go back to the pre lockdown trudge to the office for 8 hours every day we are mad. Life can be much more fulfilling, just as productive, and we can reduce cost of running offices and estates, and reduce the transport emmssions we produce.
I suspect many of those in senior positions want us all back at the grind in the office as sson as possible, and this great experiment in home working will all have been a waste of time...
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