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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Jessie Thompson

work.txt at Soho Theatre: the show about working that audiences have to perform themselves

A performance of work.txt

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Have we ever talked so much about work, and how and where we do it? As many of us worked from home during the pandemic, everything was thrown up in the air - but the advent of technology meant the demarcation between our jobs and our lives blurred long before.

And now, post-pandemic, the world of work seems to have changed irrevocably. The so-called ‘Great Resignation’ has seen workers quitting their jobs at a rate not seen for over a decade, with many “leaving the labour market entirely”; at the start of this year, vacancies were at their highest on record. A recent survey showed that flexible working is now the top priority of job applicants, and another found that most workers do not expect to return to the office full-time.

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