Even after lockdowns ended, many firms continued to allow people to spend some days working from home.
But will it last? It's a question people around the world are asking themselves -- but research in Britain may offer some hints for elsewhere too, with people moving out of the big urban centres to smaller towns and cities.
Kulasegaram Sanchayan reports in Tamil with a feature written by Allan Lee and David Sillito (BBC).
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