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Not a day has gone by since the start of the pandemic when remote working wasn’t in tabloid headlines in some form or another.

The great change to working life of our time, the concept which was once relegated almost exclusively to tech start-ups and the occasional challenger brand, is now not only a perfectly viable concept – but almost the generally-accepted standard for corporate structure.

And whilst some begrudgingly put measures in place to help workers operate from home over the past 12 months, others eagerly accepted the ‘new normal’, as many have coined it. The likes of Google, Facebook and Twitter confirmed that staff could work remotely for the foreseeable – and have since confirmed that such a move could well be permanent.

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And largely, the result of the move to remote working was positive. Despite the widespread mental, physical and economic turmoil caused by coronavirus, reports from Forbes noted that on the whole, productivity and wellbeing actually improved.