10 Things That Will Never Be The Same Post Corona It’s virtual first. While some of us have built entire careers and lives online for the last 2 decades, many of us are just getting used to video calling our medical professionals or better yet, our bosses! All of a sudden the anxieties of talking to someone so intimately yet not familiar with it is easy to slip up and say something regretful. This meeting could have been a phone call Productivity will be improved for the betterment of everyone’s precious time and energy. Organizing with management software and getting clear with processes will make phone calls feel like board meetings. Office rent will also be thought-about twice if everyone can just work from home. Virtual workouts are king. In 2015, I used to manage social media for a company called Ballet Beautiful, who’s business model included selling online workouts to ballet fans around the world. I used to get free classes from Peloton when they first opened their studio in New York. At that time, I remember feeling indifferent about working out from home, but keenly aware of the infinite reach. Post corona, virtual workouts will be more popular and safe as people will realize that community gym memberships are not as decent and clean as they are marketed. Maintaining 6ft of distance to people is now mandatory. According to the CDC, social distancing “means keeping space between yourself and other people outside of your home.” Thanks to the outbreak of ‘Rona, everyone knows what social distancing means in every language but it doesn’t translate to everyone doing it. The idea of keeping a distance from people just not a concept in the urban community, synonymous with small living quarters, bodega behavior. But we have to get with the program if it means elbow bumping and raising our hand to hearts as the new greeting. That’s cool too. I tried to do this with this guy I know from the streets and he thought it corny but no hugs, please! Mind you, when this exchange happened, I had on a face mask.
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