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Penn: COVID can be springboard to transform economy

The Telstra chief says the changes COVID-19 has made to the way we live and work aren’t going away. But Australia can win from these shifts. 

For Telstra chief executive Andy Penn, the epiphany arrived over the summer break.

Like many Australians, he had been telling himself that if he could just get to the end of 2020, then 2021 would be different, and the world would return to normal. Like many of us, he was planning what his New Year working pattern would look like – a couple of days in the office to start with, perhaps a couple more over time.

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James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com

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