{"id":8990,"date":"2022-02-08T12:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/making-every-face-to-face-meeting-count-2"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:14:17","slug":"making-every-face-to-face-meeting-count-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/blog-post\/making-every-face-to-face-meeting-count-2","title":{"rendered":"Making every face-to-face meeting count"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> On December 7th 2021, I sat in a meeting room in our offices. Notionally taking part in a Zoom call, I was mostly just enjoying the happy background hubbub among our smart and delightful colleagues in the main office. Emerging half-an-hour later, there was stony silence and grim faces: Rumours were rife that the UK would be going back into lockdown. That didn\u2019t happen, but the City of London emptied almost overnight. It was a stark reminder of how we need to make the most of what we can do when we can. <\/p>\n<p> Research we carried out in November 2021 suggested that clients expected more consulting work to take place in their offices. Asked about the extent to which consultants would come to their offices, 27% of clients said it would be on a frequent basis and 52% said when it was important to do so, although 27% thought it would be hardly at all. <\/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\/8990"}],"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=8990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24830,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990\/revisions\/24830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}