I find the article titled “How Coronavirus could make people move” very informing. I can completely relate to what the article is saying. The Coronavirus has caused a major upheaval in all of our lives. The virus changed our social lives, our work lives as well as our personal lives. The coronavirus has changed migration drastically. For example: during the peak of the pandemic in New York, many persons migrated to different states where the number of cases were much lower. Thousands of persons were unemployed, some persons were not able to afford the basic necessities such as food, rent and clothing.
The Coronavirus has caused a major impact on my life as well, right before the pandemic started my mom had plans to migrate to NYC, but was unable to do so due to the virus. One benefit I would say from the pandemic, is being at home and having more time for myself and did not have the stress of waking very early to travel for work. One skill I have developed while working from home was to be more organized. Being restricted. To digital communication with my co-workers and classmates did cause a challenge for me as persons were always late to meetings, and sometimes did not pay attention and was zoned out a lot. I think one way to overcome these challenges is simply by speaking with my co-workers.
1. Sarah’s mom had plans to move to NYC before the pandemic hit and is now unable to. She finds herself having more time as she doesn’t have to worry about commuting right now. She has become more organized as she’s working from home but has noticed challenges in communicating digitally. She finds that her coworkers arrive late to meetings and aren’t always paying attention but believes this can be resolved by just speaking with them.
2. Based on my classmates and my own experiences – as our work environments move more to the WFH digital office format, open and active communication skills will remain and will be a must in the post COVID era. I also believe that even once we return to in-person work environments, “calling out sick” may just mean working from home now and the culture around calling out sick will change.
Hi Sarah,
I’m sorry to hear about your mom having to change her plans. Thanks for sharing about your experiences here.
Like last week, it looks like you’re missing a few pieces from the instructions, so as is it would receive a 3/5. You can always review the instructions here: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/communicationmigration/?page_id=2
Could you have a look and let me know if you have any questions?