How COVID-19 is changing the future of work By Alison Hill|25 May 2021 With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing around the world and vaccines still being rolled out, our ideas of work and how work is done have seismically shifted. Where it was previously considered “suboptimal” to work away from an office, we are now seeing well-known companies globally committed to a hybrid approach into the future, writes Alison Hill. Remote work, flexible work practices, and the ability to work on the go are not new approaches. They have been a part of the way we work for decades, allowing individuals with a range of requirements to access work in a way that works for them. In the vast majority of cases though these flexible work policies served for occasional scenarios on a short-term basis. Across the course of the past 12 months we are now seeing well-known companies re-evaluated a more permanent approach and globally committing to a hybrid approach into the future.