What remains after Corona?

Where I am is my workplace. It's called "new work" these days. Many people are longing to return to the pre-coronavirus situation. But it will never be the same again. People used to travel far for a single meeting. After coronavirus, we will be more selective about whether we want to hold meetings online or on site. Our decision will depend on the objective of the meeting: difficult sales negotiations will be held in person, information events online. Why travel far for a two-hour meeting? We help the environment if we travel less and work more from home.

During the lockdown, we took part in, moderated or led many online events. Inevitably, we got to know many online platforms. We will continue to use them. We have gained new experiences with them and realized that they work. But we have to redesign the content for courses, because you can't transfer everything one-to-one to online. Recently, I spontaneously took part in a one-hour chatbot seminar. I wouldn't have traveled to Zurich for a traditional seminar. The other seminar participant from Munich probably wouldn't either. So we were only two learners, but no matter, the online seminar room is
always the same size. The offline seminar would probably have been canceled due to a lack of participants because the costs would not have been covered. But an online seminar costs almost nothing. Things like this will endure. Presumably, only full-day seminars will return to traditional venues.

The digital future is today

Corona has shown us our limits, but has also overcome previous boundaries and forced us to try out new things. What we as "digitizers" have not achieved, the virus has. I'm looking forward to a new digital future not just the day after tomorrow, but today.