Natsumi Chikayasu When Anna, a psychologist working in London, was told in March that she would be working from home indefinitely, her colleagues joked that she must have somehow started the pandemic herself. Six weeks earlier her line manager had rejected her request to work remotely one morning a week. Anna, who lives with dyslexia and depression, had hoped she could briefly escape the morning commute from Luton into central London, which had left her feeling exhausted and had tested her ability to focus. Advertisement Now, she says, it’s become clear that her manager’s objections “were all total bollocks”. “My boss told me that it would be hard on clients, but they were all happy to be seen virtually. I was told it would be too expensive, but all the software we’ve used has been free and our organisation hasn’t suffered at all financially.”