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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.

Just over a year ago, COVID-19 closed businesses around the world; workers packed up their desks, turned off the lights and went home, leaving offices empty. However, employees soon adjusted to the “new normal”, and the dormant offices left behind gathered dust, with many businesses considering their future: contemplating whether large scale office space was necessary in a post-pandemic world.

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.

It is largely agreed throughout the industry that working from home is a part of the workplace that cannot be peeled back and that a hybrid workplace is here to stay.