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Villages, hamlets & the countryside: where to find ‘white collar’ talent in 2021 Changing patterns of work and the pandemic have caused many employees to reconsider how they want to set up their life – so where are the best ones now headed? 2020 was a challenging year for all professionals. The pandemic put a strain on business performance and financial stability, with many companies being forced to utilise the Government’s help: in the form of business assistance, staff furlough initiatives and financial aid incentives. Whilst nearly all workers had to address a rebalancing of work-life priorities, with the boundaries between the two blurring more than at any other point in modern history. And for some, this great readdressing of corporate life has led to some revelations. Speaking to the BBC, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield recently summarised the feeling of many: “We all know that work will never be the same, even if we don’t yet know all the ways in which it will be different. What we can say with certainty is that the sudden shift to distributed work has provided a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine everything about how we do our jobs and how we run our