Sinead O Donnell is the Founding Partner of DO Recruitment. Sinead describes how she found herself affected by COVID in many different ways. As a business owner, 80% of the jobs her company was managing (April 2020) disappeared and then she caught the virus herself.

She says ‘that there was definitely that feeling of isolation and anxiety. We didn’t want one to feel alienated or alone. So we ensured that we had a daily video call with the team. I did the calls from my sick bed in my pyjamas.’

‘With regards to home working, we are seeing that companies are far more open and flexible than they ever were in the past… With all of the changes… because of COVID, people are thinking differently.’