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BOSS Today #53
WORK IS
EVERYWHERE
AND EVERYWHERE
IS WORK
BOSS Today looks at eight trends that are driving demand
for products ‘post-COVID’
“There’s not going to be a return to demand, apart from the obvious
traditional full-time office working. The opportunity for sales duplication – ie
hybrid model is here to stay: people will selling the same or similar products into
not be expected to spend all of their both workplaces and homes – depends
time working in the office. Instead, on eight trends:
they’ll also be working from home or
from anywhere. Work is everywhere and
everywhere is work.”
So says Jeremy Cooper, Marketing
Manager - UK & Ireland at Fellowes
UK, and it’s a foundational principle
that is being echoed by all four of the
correspondents interviewed for this Trend 1: Making the office a
feature. Elisabete Wells, Marketing safe place to return to
Director at ACCO UK believes that It’s unsurprising that COVID did wonders
“Offices will no longer be a place for demand for computer cleaning
where there are lines of desks, but chemicals and equipment, but Debbie
places with collaborative spaces where Nice, Business Development Director
people go once or twice a week to do at VOW Wholesale, is now seeing the
some brainstorming and catch up with trend to hybrid working maintaining
colleagues.” that demand: “There’s definitely this
What this means for office products idea of coming in and cleaning your own
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