Caroline O'Donoghue: Four ways the lockdown is changing people for the better

The evidence is everywhere.
Caroline O'Donoghue: Four ways the lockdown is changing people for the better

We've heard a lot about how the pandemic is forcing so many businesses to rethink the way they operate. I have read a frankly disturbing amount of press from billionaires who, post travel ban, are “really questioning whether flying around the world for a meeting is worth it, when so much can be accomplished on Zoom”.

Everytime I see one of these I want to hurl myself at an oil painting with a knife and slash downwards. Here I am, feeling guilty about flying between Cork and London a half-dozen times a year, worrying about what it’s doing to my carbon footprint — and here you were, flying to New York for an hour long business meeting?

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