While some people may be eager to return to the office, Aidan Preston, a 22-year-old working at a cyber security consultancy in Edinburgh, is anything but. Since he started working from home because of the pandemic, he has become the UK’s top-earning “friendly hacker” – a coder that helps firms identify bugs in their new software, in exchange for money.
“It’s bad to say, but Covid helped me,” he says. “Working from home definitely kicked everything off for me big time – I can’t imagine going back to an office now. It sounds too alien.”
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