The jet lag designer
Our design correspondent, Daniel Benneworth-Gray, may not have been able to travel anywhere lately, but that doesn't mean our "new normal" isn't keeping him up at night
Tomorrow. I am cloudy, cloudy from head to toe. I can barely concentrate, but of course the first thing I do is shine a blinding email-shaped light into my eye holes in case something urgent has happened overnight. I am currently working between York and the US, all from the comfort of my home, and it turns out that people on other continents like to keep busy while I sleep.
What used to be a gentle stroll into the day (pastries and coffee and Lauren Laverne) is now a hectic overlap of time zones on both sides of the Atlantic collapsing with conflicting schedules. It's all extremely disoriented and I haven't figured out how to deal with it yet. Until I tackled one country yesterday, today I have to fight another country, and the morning of the first creeps into the background –
Thanks to the knowledge-what, the geographical boundaries for the deskbound employee dissolve. Unfortunately, that is also the stuff of the times