This shift has possibly also brought with it a niggling and uncomfortable feeling that our younger colleagues - those who grew up texting, playing video games and designing websites while still at primary school - have become the new leading lights in virtual offices.

They have become the "go-to" people for seemingly simple technological fixes that you most likely struggle with.

Those lacking in technological wherewithal are likely to be "digital immigrants" - having had to learn along the way - unlike the "digital natives" who were brought up with it.

If we have learnt one thing from this massive technology fuelled WFH experiment, it is that our new digital ways of working are likely to continue - and even ramp up - way beyond the current crisis.

For those who are struggling with using the latest technology to remain connected, the message is loud and clear - if you do not wish to be left behind and given subtle hints that it is time for retirement, join the bandwagon and add a few high-tech strings to your professional bow.

The good news is that it is never not too late to address your digital deficits.

First you will need to gain an appreciation of just how far progressed you are along the dangerous journey to Jurassic Park, the home of a large herd of tech dinosaurs whose promising careers were cut short because of their aversion to technology.

An allegiance to the office fax machine might well be a dead giveaway. If you request a client's fax number or include an office fax number on your business card, it should send a shiver down your technological spine.

Beware if you are still wearing a single-function watch with hands. While less serious in the scheme of things, it could be regarded as an indicator that you are from the "old school". Your younger counterparts will be using their smart phones to tell the time or rely on sophisticated digital watches that perform multiple tasks.

If you've never paid a bill online, not read a novel using an e-reader or scrolled through a digital edition of this newspaper, then the technological alarm bells will be ringing louder than the blows of a hammer.

Similarly, if you cannot walk fast while texting, persist in printing documents to read them, are not active on at least one social media platform, and rely on making calls and sending emails to communicate with others instead of using chat apps such as WhatsApp and Viber, then you are most likely behind the technology times.

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And if you carry around with you a leather-bound, two-day-a-page diary, which if lost can result in a significant disruption to your workday, then it is likely you are not on your way to Jurassic Park but took up residence as head of the tech-dinosaur herd a very long time ago.

Avoiding the journey to Jurassic Park, where technophobes and tech dinosaurs alike gather around the waterhole at the end of an illustrious but cut-short career, is as simple as acquiring a technology mentor - if you act now.

In what is increasingly being termed "reverse mentoring", older workers in droves are hooking up online with younger tech-savvy colleagues to add new high-tech arrows to their professional quivers.

And as an older worker, once you have become a shining tech star, pay it forward and be a tech mentor to another technologically lost soul who once was just like you.