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The Hoggett Bowers 2 Minute Interview: Angela Knight CBE

I am a non-executive director on several Boards and we have weekly/fortnightly virtual Board update meetings. As well as FaceTime , Skype and Zoom, I can now reasonably successfully do Teams and as of this week, Webex. Not bad for one born in the pre-computer age and went through school and a university science degree, using log books. No calculators then.
The unlock. One of my companies is a house builder and has announced its back to work strategy. But we are all clear that the ‘new normal’ will be different from pre-Covid. So preparations for the unlock, do not just include when to commence, keeping employees and customers safe, travel, maintaining business continuity etc, but it’s also about who and how many prefer to continue working all or part of the week from home and how to accommodate that. And whether anyway several and smaller offices or pods in places where employees live, rather than bringing everyone back into a few central locations, should be the model of the future.
Much less of the working day is spent on travel, leaving more time for socialising. An hour virtual drinks with friends most evenings.
Get distracted by house chores.
Haven’t really found one, as they all seem to give an authors opinion (and that’s a negative one). Worst for facts is Trump.
The people who did wonderfully daft things for the 2.6 challenge. Such as the person who decided to run backwards in a carpark and the one who swam the distance in a pond in their garden, tethered to a post in the lawn.
Am catching up on the back catalogue of TV series that I missed, but like, such as Judge John Deeds. Eldest son who decided that lockdown with Mum was the best option (ie someone to cook meals and do his laundry), is appalled at my choice.
Difficult to compare as I can’t go to the gym three times a week any longer. However, I do a decent walk each day and I am back on my old bike (last ridden ten years ago and now purple and rust coloured).
Warm toast and butter.
Increase your social life as I have done, by a virtual drinks with friends every evening.