"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy? Caught in a
landslide, no escape from reality"
Freddie Mercury seems to have summed up the current global
situation nicely. It also sprung to mind whilst out for a (rare)
morning run this week. Traffic was non-existent, and the only other
person around was a dog walker. Pictures of cities around the world
on the news paint a similar picture – deserted shopping
centres, eerily quiet tourist spots and empty trains and buses.
On one hand, it seems rather post-apocalyptic, but whilst in one
of the various Coronavirus-related management meetings we are now
routinely holding, it also struck me that this might be a vision of
the future. Granted it has been hastened along due to the rapidity
with which Coronavirus has spread and the global reaction to it,
but could this be the new reality for work, and to an extent,
society?
