Environment v quality of life

I’m sure that I won’t be alone in agreeing with all that you say David. While I hear that there are managers who believe that some staff will be doing less at home, the reverse will be true for many. When an excess beset me while I was working, I often spent a few days blitzing the backlog, at home. I’m sure that there are people in both camps. As office footprints have reduced through ‘hot desking’, right now ‘social distancing’ has absorbed free space created through part time attendance. Certainly office space adds considerably to operating costs.  Reduced travel should reduce the strain on our transport systems, but is likely to reduce income for rail companies, motorway stops etc. Whatever emerges from the ashes, for many, such discussions are irrelevant because they aren’t doing jobs which can be done from home. Worse still must be conditions for people who have been locked down in flats, without gardens. I remember hiking with my children, when my daughter stopped to adjust her rucksack straps. “Does it help?” I asked. “Well it moves the pain somewhere else” she replied. Maybe the same will be said, post Covid. I hope that we can do a bit better than that.