What's your view? How has your career changed since March 2020?

In every issue of The Bottom Line, we ask a student their thoughts on a particular topic. This month, we want to know: How has your career changed since March 2020?

Sean Brennan
Financial Services Audit Associate at Deloitte

There is no denying that the world is entirely different from the one of pre-March 2020. However, has my career changed as drastically? Probably not. 

Of course, working from home has been a considerable change. However, I have been availing of our hybrid work and commuting to our Dublin office three days a week since about mid-2021.

I feel the world of audit and other financial services sectors were best placed to adapt to working from home. I was rarely on-site with clients and spoke to them and administrators via Teams and Zoom since I started my contract in October 2019. 

Since remote working has become the norm, we have strived to make the change seamless through virtual audit rooms or daily catch-up calls. 

I feel others in audit may have seen a huge change, especially if their job consisted of numerous walk-throughs and a necessity of being on-site. But for me, the difference is minimal, with us readily able to adapt to a working-from-home environment.