Some workers, however, have already struck a better work-life balance. “Lockdown forced me to stop,” explains David, a corporate lawyer, whose surname is also being withheld. “I spent time with my wife, rediscovered healthy living and slept well. It took this halt to realise just how destructive life at one of the world’s largest law firms was: always on call and under pressure to deliver, regularly working 60-plus-hour weeks. So, I quit.”
