The wildfires have not only devastated the forests and wildlife, but also affected the health and well-being of millions of Canadians.

While the workforce landscape changed, not all decision-makers read the room as they aimed for first to post on pre-pandemic return-to-office prize ribbons.

"If the desire and belief to return to pre-pandemic inefficiency and waste is a marker for perceived success over the pandemic itself, then we will have learned little outside the medical science of COVID19."