The Centre for Optimism

6 June 2020 

Hobert Mercury: "An overwhelming number of readers don’t want to return to their pre-COVID ‘normal life’, a News Corp Australia Network poll has revealed.

"The poll, held in conjunction with today’s Expert Q&A session, asked readers whether how they wanted their life to look post-isolation.

"Just 17 per cent said they wanted a complete return to normal ‘as it was before’, while 83 per cent wanted ‘a redesigned lifestyle embracing a new work-life balance’.

"The result supported the findings of a global survey that identified a groundswell of opposition from people to returning to the work-life they had pre-COVID.

"The survey by the Melbourne-based Centre for Optimism has found that the phrases ‘the new normal’ and ‘getting back to normal’ are dead in the water."

https://www.themercury.com.au/coronavirus/hibernation/survey-identifies-groundswell-of-opposition-to-returning-to-precovid-life/news-story/177337cc6a572446c6e8f8dc32e6505d