Irish Examiner view: Will there be any 'back to normal' in the workplace?

Before corporations and individuals make lasting decisions about future forms of working, they need to rejoin the collective enterprise, and not in a virtual way

As Covid-19 is put back into its box, or so we hope, and demand increases to get society going again, it is inevitable that a primary focus will fall upon the workplace. That is, after all, where an overwhelming majority of people earned their money during the “old normal”.

What has become increasingly apparent during the Pandemic Years is that there is not universal affection for the daily rites of going into the office, nor unconfined joy at the prospect of returning now.