The UK officially entered lockdown on 23 March 2020, although by then many businesses had already encouraged their employees to work from home.
Overnight we have become a nation of homeworkers with a new set of acronyms (WFH anyone?), a new language and a new set of tools for working remotely.
Does this mean the office is dead? My gut instinct after even a week of home working was... no.
Read MoreThe concept of a settled home is important to us at South Yorkshire Housing Association. Our purpose makes this clear: "with South Yorkshire Housing Association you can settle at home, live well and realise your potential; we want your experience with us to be a joy and we plan to be here for the long term".
Like Maslow we believe that until you are settled in a home that works for you, you cannot go on to enjoy your life, form meaningful connections with others and realise your personal potential.
So it's not surprising that in choosing and designing our new workspaces, both at Rockingham Street (our new "home") and at our smaller offices, we applied the same thinking.
Read MoreSouth Yorkshire Housing Association is the first housing association in the country (world?) to build a WikiHouse. Why did we do this?
The short answer is that in England we need to build more houses, better and faster, to hit the target of 300,000 new homes each year that is needed to tackle our housing crisis.
And we think WikiHouse could be part of the answer.
The longer answer is that while WikiHouse shares the benefits of other offsite construction methods - better/more airtight build quality, lower energy costs, higher environmental sustainability - it has some extra features which set it apart. These include: open source design, opportunities for citizen-led building, easy adaptation and distributed manufacture.
Read MoreHow can you make a "place" with just 28 homes? This is a recurring theme for South Yorkshire Housing Association whose 6,000 homes are dispersed across Sheffield City Region in groups of 10-100.
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