The rise of the precariat: What will work look like in the post-pandemic world?

After all the changes to our lives that we’ve had to endure since that start of the outbreak, the question remains: which ways of working will stay with us and which will not, asks Enis Yucekoralp

A distributed workforce offers a potential boon to those raising young children (Getty)

When the immediate crisis abates, what will post-pandemic “work” look like? Will the homeworking quarantine “experiment’ be adopted as white-collar capitalism’s new operating system?

While lockdown has essentially kept all but “key workers” out of confinement, there are still some non-furloughed employees, academic researchers and other workers who have been asked to continue working from home.

Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that only around 5 per cent of the UK’s workforce worked mainly from home in 2019. Last year, 8.7 million claimed that they had some experience of homeworking (just over a quarter of the 32.6 million in work).