At one point, very early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, the assumption of many was that traditional work life would essentially return to normal once the pandemic had subsided. In other words, there would essentially be a blip in the persistent normal way of doing things: a pre-COVID “normal”; a temporary COVID-era remote period; and a post-COVID return to normal.
Instead, it’s increasingly obvious that what the world will see is more like three distinct phases of work life with respect to the COVID pandemic: the pre-pandemic normal; the COVID-era remote period; and a post-COVID new normal.
