Originally Posted by
NeoPilott
I work for a financial company in the North East with around 800 employees and am very close to the CEO through aviation. He is already saying that there won't be any travel for us until at least the end of 2020...Even if we re-open our offices in May or June, he will not take any chances getting all of us back in the office at once - we will be working Team A and Team B concept until at least 1.5-2 months of solid data indicating major and consistent declines in total cases...The technology use in the past few weeks has been crazy, we have never closed a major multi-million dollar loan virtually before until last week. Technology works. Now this guy running the show is in his mid-60s, not a millennial. Just saying.
That's all dependent on the status of the virus and vaccine.
There will be some permanent shift to virtual work, but it's not going to be anything catastrophic. My wife has a project that just blew up because of a zoom conference, emails, and apparent lack of noverbal cues. It's going to have to be adjudicated between the secretary of transportation and the secretary of defense... this is the biggest snafu in her organization's history, she's convinced it never would have happened if she could have sat down at the table with these people. Seams are starting to open up in other areas too. Her employer is treating this as limp-home mode, not the "new normal".