During lockdown many people will have delighted in the novelty of working from home. No commute! Slightly better lunches! But as days have become months, the novelty may have worn off.
One Zoom call leaks into another. The light of your workplace instant messenger tool enters your dreams. It becomes apparent that, work-wise, the environment may have changed, but very little else has.
Presenteeism is not dead. Far from it: even without the commute or other travel, it is deeply engrained in our culture. And in a looming recession, many of us resort to presenteeism to illustrate how indispensable we are to our employers, whether we are freelancers, on a fixed-term contract or in a full-time job. We are home, but we remain in a seemingly toxic work culture that the glorified world of co-working and tech start-ups has done nothing to improve.
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