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The Covid pandemic has “put a rocket boost under working-from-home and driving the debate about the purpose of the office” according to NatWest boss Andy McBain.

Businesses have gone through unprecedented change this last year, and there will be more to come. The pandemic has forced companies to re-think everything, including for many their office space.

If you look up the definition of change in the dictionary, it refers to making something different, altering or modifying. We have come to view change as a disruption to normal practice.

Pre-Covid, traditional change management was often a laborious process for many businesses, taking time to implement anything new. Now, businesses are coming to realise that the type of change management required in the wake of the pandemic needs to be much quicker, and more agile.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a year of no disruption, and to return to our previous business models and strategies pre-Covid? Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen in 2021, despite feeling like we might be over the worst of the pandemic. If businesses have been holding out for a return to normality and stability, they are in for a long wait.