I sat at my desk at home this week and called someone unannounced on Facetime. The call was declined with an immediate text to follow that said: “You can’t do that!!! I’m at home. I’m not dressed yet!” One bit of working from home etiquette that is yet to register with me.

I might be a bit behind the curve on this one – I’m sure freelancers and others who work alone at home are well used to the rules, but for many of us who spend our lives at a desk in an office and in face-to-face meetings I can tell by the number of Instagram posts this week of online video meetings using Zoom or Teams that virtual meetings are still a novelty.

Aside from the humour derived from the voyeuristic glimpse into colleagues homes that video calling provides and the amount of “set-editing” that it’s inspiring, there is a more interesting issue being debated as a result of us all practising social distancing and, for the more unlucky, social isolation: when we’re out the other side, how will the virus affect the way we work in the long term?

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