The jury is still out on the world vision of office working once the pandemic restrictions subside. Twitter have announced that their employees can work from home ‘forever’, whereas the view from Netflix is that homeworking is ‘a pure negative’.1
But, unlike AS&K, these big corporations have completely different considerations. We are being guided by listening to the needs of our staff.
On Christmas Day I received an email. It was addressed to my 7-year-old son, and it told him that his coronavirus test was positive.
There were mixed emotions. I was amused at the thought of this strange Christmas present. I was also relieved – ever since his school had closed a day early the previous week because a teacher had tested positive we’d been living with uncertainty. Although a little scary, the knowledge we now had was reassuring.
The Corpus had an incredibly busy year last year, with an unexpected increase in demand for online meeting solutions. We worked with pharmaceutical companies, speakers and healthcare professionals to deliver innovative and interactive online meetings that made a real difference, with 87% of attendees feeling more confident after the Corpus meetings, and a staggering 72% intending to make a change in their clinical practice as a result.
In December 2020, we were delighted to receive notification that Global Health & Pharma had bestowed two awards upon us:
It’s been an understandably subdued start to the year. As we look forward to the rest of 2021, we have a couple of big, and related, New Years’ resolutions for the agency.
Vaccination is one of the most effective investments in global health: WHO reports that vaccines save 2–3 million lives each year, with a considerable potential for growth should worldwide coverage improve.