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FEATURE
COVID-19: One Year Later
What We’ve Learned, What’s OChanged, What’s Changed Forever
ne year ago, the world, or at least our
little corner of it, stopped. Completely.
Well, almost completely.
The fact is, we don’t know what ‘normal’ will be moving forward. In many respects, we don’t
know exactly how COVID will reshape
Better to say that it paused BusinessWest the landscape and the workplace,
— big time. The COVID- 19 pandemic had arrived in the 413 and elsewhere, and life as we knew it had given way to something else.
Something much different. Something the likes of which we had never seen or dealt with before.
The cover of the March 16, 2020 issue of BusinessWest captured it perfectly. Above a set of empty conference-room chairs was the headline “Life in Limbo.”
Almost exactly a year later ... the chairs in
the conference room are, for the most part, still empty. In some cases, they haven’t moved or been sat in since last March. They sit, waiting for people, and normalcy — whatever the heck that is — to return.
higher education, and the medical center down the street. We don’t know how it will impact the delicate work/ life balance moving forward, and
we don’t exactly know how it will permanently change how we work, network, gather, and interact with others.
But we can certainly talk about, and for the one-year anniversary of COVID (nothing to celebrate, that’s for sure), we did. BusinessWest gathered leaders
Life in Limbo Businesses Deal with
Growing Impact of Coronavirus
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MARCH 16, 2020 THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS VOLUME 36 NUMBER 24 $3.00
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for continued updates on the pandemic’s impact on the region.
with six area businesses and institutions to
talk about the many ways COVID has changed our work and our lives, how it is impacting the workplace (and will for years to come), and even how it is has made them all different and, in their view, better managers.
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