{"id":8947,"date":"2022-04-08T10:17:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/microsoft-teams-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder-2"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:02:43","slug":"microsoft-teams-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/blog-post\/microsoft-teams-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder-2","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams makes the heart grow fonder"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that didn\u2019t seem to be the case for consultants in the depths of the COVID pandemic. In late 2020, one year on from its first outbreak in Wuhan, clients were less positive than before about what it\u2019s like to work with consulting firms: Just 65% spoke positively about a range of attributes that we ask about. On top of that, they were less positive about every aspect we asked about, with the greatest downturn in perceptions of firms\u2019 culture, innovation, and breadth of services on offer.  <\/p>\n<p> So, it was somewhat surprising to see a major reversal in our most recent survey. Now, clients are more positive than ever\u2014on average, 81% of clients describe firms in positive terms on the same metrics. It\u2019s the sort of swing that breaks the swing-o-meter on election night and leaves forecasting agencies with red faces.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15794,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions\/15794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}