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Tempus: Digital game developers look winners

The Times

There is an argument that successfully doing our jobs from home in recent weeks will fundamentally change our approach to working life when we are eventually called back to the office.

The absence of the daily commute has created valuable extra time for those with hobbies and passions, which might make the return to the familiar desk less appetising.

It might also provide a big long-term boost to the already thriving business of selling us things to do in our additional leisure time, with most of us confined at home for long periods each day.

As lockdowns were being widely imposed across Europe last month in order to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus, sales of downloadable computer games soared, according to Gamesindustry.biz,