A staggering 22 million Americans in the country’s labour workforce lost their jobs between January and April 2020 due to covid closures, pushing the unemployment rate up to almost 15% – the highest rate ever recorded in the 72 years since data collection began in 1948 – and a year on, the rate hasn’t changed

2020 goes down in the history books as the year of a long overdue final push for millions to abandon daily commutes to work in city offices in exchange for working from home remotely as well as the beginning of new era of digitalization. The change was forced upon us by circumstances beyond our control