19.04.2021
"New Normal"
What are we taking away from this?
Lockdown, home office, calls, video calls, online voting, good lighting, front lighting, back lighting, walking through the shot, closing the office door – the little one is coming home from kindergarten… these are some of the terms that have shaped my everyday life for months.
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Lockdown, working from home, calls, video calls, online voting, good lighting, front lighting, back lighting, walking through the shot, closing the office door – the little one is coming home from kindergarten… these are some of the terms that have defined my daily life for months. Strange – yes, certainly. We all long for our "normal lives" again and don't want a "new normal."
But what is "normal"? For many of us, digitalization has at least made something resembling a professional routine possible. So we could actually consider ourselves lucky that we were able to "carry on." The alternative to digitalization would have been a complete shutdown – without emails, streaming, homeschooling, data transmission, etc., our country (and not just ours…) would have ground to a halt.
Okay, it wasn't "normal," "not everything was better," but "many things worked surprisingly well." Now it will be our shared task to carry our learning experiences with the "new normal" into the future, apply what we've learned, and thus embrace new ways of working even in a "post-corona" era. I question the necessity of a two-hour drive for a ten-minute in-person meeting...
Digitalization has shown us, especially during challenging times, that it can be helpful in a wide variety of areas of life. However, digitalization is not a panacea. It's crucial to recognize where digitalization can continue to provide support in the future, and where it cannot. Digitalization with common sense could be something we can take away from this. I'm happy to be involved and look forward to it!