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  Online meetings

  Posted by Davide on August 18, 2021 at 3:21 pm

  • How often are you doing remote meetings now compared to before the Covid pandemic?
    The number of online meetings I do since the pandemic broke out has practically doubled. In fact, before remote meetings were only used for outsiders, now they are used to communicate with all colleagues as well.
  • Do you like remote meetings?
    I don’t hate them and I don’t love them
  • What’s the best aspect / most annoying aspect about online meetings?
    In online meetings it is not easy to keep the attention of all participants high, especially if there are many participants. The best aspect is clearly the saving of time and energy in physically reaching the participants.
  • Do you think remote meetings are as effective as face-to-face meetings?Why? Why not?
    No, because you lose the human and physical contact with the person in front of you. No matter how far technology advances, it will never be possible to reproduce a physical meeting.

  Kerin replied 3 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kerin

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  August 24, 2021 at 1:00 pm

  Thank you for your thoughts @Davide.Mattesini – this was well written.

  I have two suggestions for you:

  The number of online meetings I do since the pandemic broke out has practically doubled.

  This isn’t wrong grammatically, but it sounds a bit unnatural. We would use either the present continuous- to show it is a temporary action or something happening int his moment:

  ▶️ The number of online meetings I’m doing since the pandemic broke out has practically doubled.

  or, the present perfect continuous to show that something started in the past and is continuing at the present time.

  ▶️ The number of online meetings I’ve been doing since the pandemic broke out has practically doubled.

  Then,

  In fact, before remote meetings were only used for outsiders, now they are used to communicate with all colleagues as well.

  When you use before you need to stipulate ‘what’ so you can say either:

  ▶️In fact, before Covid, remote meetings were ….

  ▶️ In fact, beforehand, remote meetings were …

  ▶️ In fact, pre-Covid, remote meetings were

  
  

  Let me know if you need anything clarified!

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