As of 9th August 2020 9.6 million people from 1.2 million UK companies on furlough. (Ref. Statistica). UK businesses are about to make a good proportion of the flying business community redundant but are holding off while the government subsidises wages until the end of October. Middle-managers (crowing??) from company A, B & C are putting jobs over travel and company D is doing the same. This is all short term of course, perhaps the next 2 - 3 years while the economy corrects itself. The long term effect will be that people who hitherto believed in the sacrosanct nature of live face to face meetings will realise that so much more is possible working remotely...or they too will be phased out. I can see a rift developing in the business community right now and while the threat of redundancy looms - those embracing the future (survive and thrive) and those desperate to return to ‘normal’. To those who say that Zoom and Teams etc, etc, are not a viable alternative to (a great deal of) travel and face2face...beware...are you in the ‘desperate to get back to normal’ category? Watch what happens 30 days from the end of furlough...