How covid-19 has accelerated change in the world of work I will remember 2020 as the year I chaired an international conference from a small bacon factory in the English countryside. Had this gig come up in 2019 I would have been at a large conference centre in Athens. But…

It was hot. So hot the stray dogs wagged their tails in slow motion as they sniffed out the shaded corners. So hot the festive Santas — octogenarians hired by the city to dress up in furry robes — sweated jovially through their straggly beards in the southern hemisphere yuletide…