Working in the New Normal
Barbara Czarniawska, Josef Pallas, Elena Raviola · Policy Press eBooks · 2025
The new wave of the pandemic that came in the autumn of 2020 was preceded by a rapid increase in the number of infections. The pandemic was obviously not over. In the autumn, everybody was waiting for the vaccine, while the first evaluations initiated by the government began to flow in. The Corona Commission issued its first report in which the Swedish handling of the pandemic was presented as late and inadequate. The chapter gives voice to many of our interlocutors who described how they tweaked and relaxed some of the previous adjustments to COVID in order to work in the new normal. This is the period of adaptations of adaptations.