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Working from home has offered people a glimpse of how things could be different | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

For some, exile from the office has been painful. Others want the flexibility it brings to continue, pandemic or no
‘Parents stand to benefit from more flexibility.’ Photograph: Tom Werner/Getty Images

I had begun to forget the sensation of hope. This is the year that I scaled hopefulness back: it became bread in the oven or bulbs in the ground – small packages of potential, just significant enough to give the soul a little lift. Then, the news of not one, but two pioneering vaccines, and hope rustled its feathers again. After months of making future promises for “when this is all over”, it seems that it could, one day, be over.

There’s relief, of course. But there are also mixed

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