The Great Decentralization that coronavirus has heralded’, 29 May) was about how the covid pandemic and the ensuing lockdown have catalysed a great decentralization across multiple sectors, organisations and even societies.
But nowhere has this phenomenon been more visible than in work. Work from home (WFH) has not only become a business reality, but also a lifestyle statement.
Everyone everywhere is sitting in yoga pants, staring goggle-eyed at screens, and the array of Zoom windows has become iconic of how work is now done.Interestingly, the same people who used to wax eloquent on how great office spaces were in fostering collaboration, productivity and innovation, are now standing on housetops to proclaiming the demise of the same..