While it may not feel like that, Within a full year, it allows for habits to change, and many aspects of our culture will not go back to pre-2020 types, for good or for bad.
Bosses and companies have gotten use to Employees working from home, they have found ways to manage them remotely effectively. We have found that large groupings are not necessarily better, as well our technology has gotten to a point where we find after we got use to them, we are not missing them as much as we thought.
I laugh every time I hear someone say, back to normal. And it gets funnier every time I hear it. We don't remember what normal was and the further we get from it the less accurate our memory will be. Remember kids, you may NOT violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
I laugh every time I hear someone say, back to normal. And it gets funnier every time I hear it. We don't remember what normal was and the further we get from it the less accurate our memory will be.
I don't really think many people forget what normal was. Maybe my 4 year old, but even that I doubt.
Not everything will "go back to normal". Businesses being accepting of more remote labor is one prime example of changes which are likely to persist for a large segment of jobs. Business travel will probably also never return to normal. There were also many trends already happening in entertainment, delivery services, online shopping, etc. which were simply accelerated and are unlikely to rebound much.
But kids will go back to school full time five days a week. People will start hanging out in restaurants and bars with people from different households. We will have live theater and concerts and conferences again (the one 100k+ attendee conference I attend every year had a horrible remote experience in 2020). Most things will go back to normal, since most things humans do are because we like them. Which is probably why most of the changes will be related to work because that was always more of a chore than something we enjoyed.
1 year is a long time. (Score:4, Insightful)
While it may not feel like that, Within a full year, it allows for habits to change, and many aspects of our culture will not go back to pre-2020 types, for good or for bad.
Bosses and companies have gotten use to Employees working from home, they have found ways to manage them remotely effectively. We have found that large groupings are not necessarily better, as well our technology has gotten to a point where we find after we got use to them, we are not missing them as much as we thought.
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Re:1 year is a long time. (Score:2)
I laugh every time I hear someone say, back to normal. And it gets funnier every time I hear it. We don't remember what normal was and the further we get from it the less accurate our memory will be.
I don't really think many people forget what normal was. Maybe my 4 year old, but even that I doubt.
Not everything will "go back to normal". Businesses being accepting of more remote labor is one prime example of changes which are likely to persist for a large segment of jobs. Business travel will probably also never return to normal. There were also many trends already happening in entertainment, delivery services, online shopping, etc. which were simply accelerated and are unlikely to rebound much.
But kids will go back to school full time five days a week. People will start hanging out in restaurants and bars with people from different households. We will have live theater and concerts and conferences again (the one 100k+ attendee conference I attend every year had a horrible remote experience in 2020). Most things will go back to normal, since most things humans do are because we like them. Which is probably why most of the changes will be related to work because that was always more of a chore than something we enjoyed.