This special edition of From/To is a snapshot of how millions of people around the world are living and working today – and for the foreseeable future – as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We’ve taken 21 of the 42 ideas from our original report and updated them for our strange current times.

The Future of Work Is Now the Present of Work

Fast-forward to the summer of 2020. Many of these trends no longer represent the future of work but are entirely central to the present of work. Working remotely, working on a couch, wearing a hoodie, leveraging the cloud, collaborating over video, using AI-based solutions, talking to technology, worrying about privacy, fretting about always being “on” – things that had seemed on the edge of many people’s radars a mere 12 months ago are now, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, right bang in the middle of them.