WORK-LIFE Post Corona Outbreak
Coronavirus , coronavirus pandemic, covid-19 outbreak, coronavirus outbreak, social distancing, future of work, work from Home, working from office, centralized offices, work culture, livelihoods. The cholera epidemic has given way to the corona pandemic. The virus has hit our planet like a meteor, threatening to disrupt life, and one of the major human activities that it is reshaping is work. For years now, there’s been talk about the “future of work" (FoW), or how technology, demographic changes and lifestyle choices will transform the way we work. We have been slowly but inexorably heading towards a new construct of work. However, sometimes life-changing events greatly accelerate the future to suddenly make it the present: work in the time of Covid-19. The current pandemic will turn the future into the present. To understand that, let us look at the nine key tenets of FoW, and how Covid-19 is fast-forwarding them to the present. Where will we be in six ...