wanting to be around people, and not used to being around people. The thought of weaving my way amongst lots of people, which I would have previously thought nothing about, now is something I don’t want to do unless I have to. The break is something that an awful lot of people have been looking forward to for a long time and it has almost been used as a marker to get to because of the awful pandemic. For months I have been hearing people say that ‘we have to get to Christmas”. Trying to think what is the next thing that we look forward to, that can help keep us going, and sadly there is nothing that really springs to mind. Next Christmas is a long way off and other moments in time are not quite the same.
The
vaccine, which I will have as soon as I can, doesn’t have the same ‘appeal’ in that it is a moment in time. The staging of it being administered will mean that people are going to be able to go out at all different points in time. Working from home/living at work has been
hard. Spending more time with people than we are used to doing has been hard and lovely. I know from a personal perspective it
has been amazing to spend so much time with my daughter (when I am normally away 3 - 4 nights a week) but not going out has resulted in me almost forgetting what a normal working week is.
Much of my work in the last few months has been about thinking differently, how disabled people may work in this new environment, because I think that the work environment will potentially be different for far longer than any vaccination programme. Disabled people have struggled in so many ways in the job market due to more reasons than I could list here, but there is an opportunity for employers to think more clearly and creatively about how to improve the generally low figures. We have known for a long time that most reasonable adjustments generally cost very little so we have to look beyond their excuses for not doing more. If it was easy it would have been fixed a long time ago, but the issue is that in twenty years time I don’t want to be fighting for the things that I was fighting for twenty years ago. This is perhaps the time when we can get people to think differently.
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