For most employers – and their employees – the office is a place to congregate, collaborate, manage, supervise, socialise and, most importantly, to do work before it’s time to go home and unwind.
For some, especially younger generations that come from all over the world to work in Dublin’s thriving tech sector, the office is more like a university campus than a workplace, where they can eat, exercise, work, learn, socialise, unwind – and the only reason to go home is to sleep.
The lockdown has raised a lot of questions about our work-life balance. For me, and many others, spending more time with family has been one of the few positive impacts of the lockdown. And no matter where you sit on the fence of this debate, one of the clear advantages of working from home is not having to commute – and getting that time back.