In March 2020, we packed boxes, bags and binders, abandoned our office buildings all across our cities, and headed for our homes as if a plague had hit us. Well, ok, a pandemic hit us. Our cities became ghost towns, and high-rise office blocks stood empty against an ominous skyline. There was no use for these buildings in their traditional roles as containers of people. We all discovered that it was possible to work from home, or wherever.
The lockdown buzzwords were ‘reset’ and ‘new normal’. Everything was to be reset, and whatever we reset to would become our new normal. I