New lifestyle for workers
The coronavirus has led to governments urging a number of temporary practices, such as “selfisolation”. There may, however, be longer-term effects on the way we live our lives.
One of those is likely to be that of working from home.
This has its limitations. It is not possible for someone working on an assembly line to work from home; the option is merely to stay at home. It is, however, possible in the era of the internet for office workers to work either from home or in a location that does not require a long commute.
Responding to the suggestion in the British government’s virus action plan encouraging greater home working, Telegraph columnist Maria Lally wrote: “I went freelance when I had my first child in 2010 and worked from home for the following eight years, until 2018. From the outside it’s a jammy set-up: an extra hour in bed, a 30second commute, the opportunity to work in slightly grubby jeans without judgment. But there are also significant drawbacks, such as loneliness and a lack of motivation.”
Working from home has been stimulated by the coronavirus. But the long-term effect may well be one of widespread adoption of new ways of office working.
Moreleta Village sector. However, the president’s reintroduction of “expropriation without compensation” killed any sign of renewed interest at this year’s indaba. Historically, we used our coal resources to power the nation with a strategic advantage: low-cost, reliable electricity.
SA is still resource-rich, which is a national advantage over many other countries, but the government has over-regulated it and killed the opportunity to lead again through resource exploitation. It should have learnt from Karl Marx that as quickly as he created philosophies to cure social evils, society reformed itself, as human ingenuity always wins in the end.
So forget all the rhetoric. As someone said to me last week: “Load-shedding is job-shedding” and now “corona is the engine of online”.
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