4 Types of Post-Covid Meetings
A year under lockdown changed the calculus around how we use our time and how we interact
In the U.S. and U.K., hope is in the air. The vaccination programs are well underway, and life is starting to open up. The U.K. has been under one of the harshest lockdowns of the pandemic, with everything except pharmacies and food shops closed since December 26th. People have worked from home, not met indoors, and only quite recently were allowed to sit down with another person outside. In the parks in Central London, police were moving people on if they sat on a bench to talk.
But now, the lockdowns are being relaxed, and the weather is improving. Sitting outside a café and talking to a friend—cold but with the sun on your face—is something exciting, and something most of us haven’t done since long before Christmas. We are cautiously going back into restaurants and cafés, for the first time in nearly half a year.
Over the last week, my various conversations have focused on what meetings will look like as things open up. As one colleague said, “It will be interesting to see who actually wants to meet me once that’s possible again.” He was interpreting this as who really values him, but I took it another way.
