Coronavirus in 2022

Updated 11 June 2022

With Covid being pushed off the front pages by Putin not only attacking the Ukraine, but flogging their produce as well, problems in Africa and rising petrol and supermarket prices, we have not updated this site since 11 June when we wrote:

Throughout major economies, while it was slowly recovering, cases and deaths in the UK have increased 53% and 23% week on week to a daily average of 9,000 and 60 per day, Most of Europe has seen significant increases and the USA have risen by 74% and 33% in just seven days.

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Every “expert” is stating the obvious in saying Covid has simply accelerated the inevitable with people working from home, either totally or 60 to 80% of the week; the death of the high street (it won’t die, but it will need to reinvent itself and evolve), and the speeding up of both Chinese and Indian economies overtaking the USA.

A survey of 8,000 adults from eight countries found that UK and US workers showed the highest level of apathy towards going back to the office. 

At ABC Computer Solutions, we are already offering clients support for staff working at home as well as in the office.

Many companies see this as a major restructuring opportunity to turn their backs on the huge costs associated with running an office in the financial centre of Europe, and are looking at turning around the ways their businesses operate.

Fur the time being, there will always be organisations that need hundreds of thousands of square feet in London and in all major cities, but many more that can operate more profitably with a much smaller presence and the huge corporations of today will be very, very different in 2060. Facebook, Apple and Tesla cars will just be a fond memory that pensioners just chat about occasionally.