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Paradigms that the COVID-19 health contingency will shift in business... and everyone’s lives By: Salvador Meza *
Have you considered why we are now working more and producing less? There is no supplier, client, colleague, or friend nowadays who isn’t making comments about how they are busier at work now than before the COVID-19 health crisis, despite working from home.
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fter-hours meetings that extend beyond normal business hours. Video calls and sales follow-up with clients for whom a simple email used to be enough. Virtual planning and re-planning meetings to adjust the budget to the reality of COVID-19 every month, or even every week. These are examples of how people are working more while performing less, as shown by the monthly income and growth results of companies. This “extra” effort people are putting into work is mainly due to trying to adjust to a different operating structure than the one they had previously developed, which was probably not unlike their parents’. The shift toward information technologies (IT) does not end at just downloading an app to communicate using computers or mobile phones. It involves changing our way of thinking and seeing human relationships as something that now is becoming integrated into automated
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