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2021 Workplace Trends:

Predictions for the Year Ahead

How has Covid-19 changed previous workplace trends? And what’s in store

for our working lives in 2021? To say that 2020 has altered our world of work

would be an understatement.

As governments and businesses around the Working from home will continue
world began to grapple with Covid-19, our It’s safe to say that Covid-19 has accelerated the
working lives – as we knew them – were turned adoption of flexible working. Several lockdowns
on their heads. have forced many companies to work from

The UK was forced into months of working from home – even those that were reluctant to work
home. Some companies considered making anywhere but the office. We believe working
office-culling moves – and in doing so – sparked from home, as well as other types of flexible
the age-old ‘death of the office’ debate. Pretty working, such as staggered hours and working
quickly, we got tired of living at work. And as closer to home, will continue to form a part of
technology replaced face to face interactions, we our working lives in 2021.
started getting ‘zoom fatigue’. While this partly comes down to our ongoing

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