The Pandemic Will Alter Careers And Lives
But Not in the Alarming Ways Many Predict
Forbes recently published an article by senior contributor Jack Ryan in which he describes how the Coronavirus Outbreak will change careers and our lives in alarming ways for the foreseeable future. In it, he uses a couple of thousand words of predictions explaining how the current pandemic will shape and change the lives of Americans post-Coronavirus. Although I respect Mr. Kelly’s position and opinion on many other aspects of business, now that the economy is starting to re-open, I need to put my own “two cents” on this sensitive matter because I think he is taking a doom and gloom approach to the topic.
In the article, Kelly often refers to a probable change in how much of our free time we will choose to spend at home. He claims we’ve now had our taste of freedom and won’t want to commute long hours to an office just to sit in a cubicle — and our bosses apparently won’t want us to.
Many of us have longed for the flexibility to work from home but fail to recognize how many office components we’d actually miss — until now. That organized workflow, vital dialogue both with our superiors and our coworkers, and the interaction that takes place face to face is suddenly missed after spending months waking up at noon with no one to talk to and no motivation…
