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safely back to work. Some staff were self- isolating; but again in a curious way that brought us all the more together. We set up weekly communal communications sessions; meetings became much more focused when they were virtual on-line, and so they were shorter and more efficient. Some clients temporarily put their projects on hold, which meant that


we could spend longer on video-meetings with those who were still working, and so formed closer relationships with them. “Many of those things will remain, we hope, post-pandemic. We spent some money on heath precautions, but we have saved much more on things like travel, and we are much more efficient now. All those have been benefits. So as well as the public


health protection of the lockdown there have been some other positives from it as well. There are negatives also. We lost the ‘photocopy machine huddles’, those exchanges that help make the social side of a business. So we are trying to do things to keep the social interactions ongoing. “Enquiries in the first two months were not kicking cans, they were serious, not


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