It's not just you, work during coronavirus has become harder than before

The pandemic is increasingly understood as a shock, an event beyond our control that disrupted our normal ways of working and living

The pandemic has seriously altered how we work. According to statistics published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in September 2020, US$35 trillion (£26 trillion) has been lost globally in labour income. There has also been an estimated loss of 17 per cent of working hours worldwide since 2019, with young people and women being hit hardest. And many of those still in jobs are working under very different conditions.

We are just beginning to understand the long-term consequences of this change, for worker wellbeing, for how work is carried out and for society and economies as a