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EDITOR’S LETTER

elcome to the April 2021 issue of . Many people have now returned to corporate offices or their version of pre-pandemic industry, but the way we work, live and travel has certainly changed forever. And there is a definite upside! In this issue, we profile Randal Marsh and Roger Wood, partners in award-winning Victorian firm. Roger Wood’s comments about learning from the pandemic really resonate with me. “I realised that going to the office at 8.30am and leaving at 6.30pm was some kind of Dickensian obligation on my behalf. I think we now work smarter and are more flexible,” he says. I agree – the pandemic has forced us to use technology to explore possibilities and there’s no going back. Hooray – that oft-talked-about yet elusive work-life balance might now actually be a possibility for some after the compulsory rethink!

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