"In the mornings, sitting on the bus, I was never thinking, 'I wonder is the internet going to work today?'" Sinead O'Kane is one of thousands of people working remotely since the Covid-19 crisis gripped the country.
While it has brought about a shorter commute, it has also brought with it other challenges. "Basically, I'd have a lot of systems, I would have to log in to every morning and, at the moment, if you tried to log in several systems at one time it would crash," she explained. "If you're doing large work cases and you put too much into the system, it also might crash, so there's a lot of kind of manual workarounds." Ms O'Kane works in financial services in Dublin.