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3 trends I’m rooting for in the post-Covid workplace
On my last day of work before a 5-week summer vacation (as someone said dryly to me earlier today: “wow, how every Scandinavian of you”), I’m finding myself contemplating the last year and a half, and trying to imagine what lies ahead for the fall of 2021.
I’m in Sweden, a country that was hit hard by the pandemic, but also made bold decisions to keep our society as open as possible, taking the total sum of possible public health ramifications into account.
Without getting into any detailed discussions about our Covid strategy, I’m sitting here now in the sweltering summer heat of July 2021 and looking into the future with excitement and curiousity.
Here are 3 things I hope to see, not just in Sweden but regionally and globally, as we start to emerge and begin our recovery from the Covid pandemic in the coming months.
A true flexibility and individuality in working conditions
For the past year and a half, there has been more than enough squabble on Linkedin, in the media, and around kitchen tables around the world — “should we go back to the office, or stay at home once the pandemic is over?”.
People on either side of the office/WFH chasm have hurled their arguments against the other side…
