| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: Total disaster | |
| Posted by: | Claire Moran | |
| Date/Time: | 10/09/20 22:34:00 |
| It is a really tough one. People do need to get back to work but the government is wrong to try to get those who can work effectively from home back into the old traditional office set up. Fortunately, many businesses and even more employees have seen the advantages that this brings. Long term there may be a hybrid solution, with many variations including companies maintaining a small hub office where people can go to when they want/need to, for meetings, to escape a noisy home environment etc. But while I really sympathise deeply with the young - still young enough to imagine what this impact would have had on my schooling, university life and twwnties to thirties work and social life - I think that, as eminent scientists have said, we have unlocked too fast, particularly in the social arena. Is having older people, most of whom grew up in an era of challenging employment opportunities, sky high interest rates, severe inequality to women, and who thought in their silver years they might be able to enjoy a bit of relaxed social life and indulge their hobbies, now live isolated, cowering behind their front doors, terrified to go out, worth allowing the young to mix and mingle in pubs and restaurants, on university campuses etc? |