Changes to society from COVID-19

My large corporate office in prime Sydney CBD is currently running at 2% occupancy as nearly everyone is working from home. I think the CFO will look at that potentIal cost saving and think about how to realise some of it; not sure if office trusts are the best place to be right now......

 

The sad thing that many of the countries who are doing badly DID have a plan - they just didn't follow it. Sometimes its due to the political beast and sometimes its just because no one wants to make that hard call - call it too early and people will hang you for their not being an issue as you nipped it in the bud too early with harsh measures - call it too late and well we all know what happens then.

Hindsight will give some answers but we (not Australia, the whole world) are still in the early days of COVID-19. In 2 years time there might be some retrospective answers but even then the data from some countries might not be trustworthy or even accurate due to not enough testing.

 

Agreed, i think hotdesking which was vastly unpopular but introduced anyway by a number of companies - will be seen as more of a sensible choice if people are going to work from home 2 days a week and in the office 3 days etc

 

Let's see how this goes in NSW. Seems like Dan Andrews in Victoria won't be lifting the restrictions for at least another two weeks although our numbers are half NSWs. Go figure...

"From Friday, groups of two adults — and their children if they have any — will be able to visit other households for social gatherings."
NSW restrictions: Coronavirus social gathering rules to be eased from Friday, Premier Gladys Berejiklian says - ABC News

 

I am wearing leggings for work every day.

 

Maybe l'm dreamin but l'm half expecting covid to just fade away come next year and life to go back to pretty well normal .
Or maybe a vax makes it not matter anymore , don't know.
But l am afraid Australia will just use it as a welcome excuse to bring in even more rules and laws and regulations and nanny state us to death even more so later too, something they thrive on here .
But sadly l think all this will also speed up already disappearing shops and retail by about 10yrs too, which is gonna be such a shame, so many that do survive will probably just stay online now later.
Probably a lot of modified working situations will just stay too , probably be 50x the people working from home later than there was before too. All kinds of places have rushed into figuring out how to deliver too now and ways, think that'll stay and just increase even more so.

 

I don't think it'll fade away - I suspect we'll just get used to living with it and it'll be come "just another disease" one might catch

 

God only knows.