Most of our readers would not be aware that I have been
at the office almost non-stop these last few weeks as a consequence of a
plethora of COVID-related staff absences. That’s not because even a single employee
of hundreds across the globe has contracted the coronavirus — so far as
I know, they are all healthy as horses — but because almost nobody currently
working from home has any enthusiasm about returning to work in the current
environment, and the corporate powers that be are even less enthusiastic about
ordering them to do so. The vast majority of my co-workers seem content to hunker
down in their basements doing not too much of anything until sometime in Spring 2021.
Yeah, sure … that’ll be the end of it. Right.