The new workplace: readers share their best WFH stories

We’ve taken calls from cars, conducted interviews from childhood bedrooms, and held meetings with screaming babies on our hips - and despite it all, surveys show we want more home working options

Over 95% of people want to continue working from home, according to an NUIG study.

Pretty much every aspect of normal life has changed since March 2020, but perhaps no area has been affected quite as much as the workplace.

“There’s a generational change happening in terms of organisational practice. This would normally take 20 or 30 years, but it happened in the space of months,” says Mark Doyle, chief executive of OMT Global, a consultancy firm specialising in leadership development. “People rallied around the emergency and came together and had the attitude of ‘we have to make this work’.”