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Furlough and working-from-home have dispersed workers into a diverse range of new working patterns. Social media is filled with anecdotes from workers who start their day late and finish early but still get more done by virtue of not having to commute to an office. There are those who have already returned to and embraced their return to the office, thankful to be away from the distractions of home. And of course, there are those who never stopped working, most notably essential workers and healthcare professionals.
Events of 2020 and 2021 have inevitably led to talk about the nature (and location) of work being changed forever. Coronavirus is a black swan events that is beyond what is normally expected, severe in impact and extremely rare. But rather than fundamentally changing how and where we work, the black swan of 2020 and 2012 may instead simply be accelerating a pattern in our working hours that actually started 150 years ago.