Jaime C. Laya
It’s been nine months since life changed on March 17 when Covid-19 quarantined us all. I am in the super-vulnerable age group and am under doctor’s orders to stay locked in.
I still work and the immediate impact of the lockdown is extra time. Before Covid, it took me an average of two hours in traffic home-office-home. Add to that traffic time saved in having no out-of-office meetings. That’s easily an extra three hours of daily working time. I drive myself to the office on Sundays when no one is around but otherwise papers needing my signature are brought to me. I am not a bad typist and all in all, working from home on a computer is as good as being in the office provided the internet behaves.