After this, please no more Zoom

We all know it has been a necessity but when things finally go back to normal I beg to never do a Zoom call again, writes Chris Blackhurst

People’s behaviour has changed. So now babies, dogs and cats on laps are regarded as normal (Getty)

We both agreed at the end of our Zoom call that soon we hoped to be able to never do a Zoom call again.

It seemed strange, two people seemingly saying they could not stand the sight of each other, but that’s not what we meant. We want to meet in person and, failing that, we will use that old-fashioned device called the phone – remember, the one that was common before every single encounter, in the business world at least, had to be via Zoom.

I can just about recall when we actually met, instead of those so-called meetings with people sitting in little rectangles. There’s no eye contact any more, no close-up observation of a tell-tale twitch in someone’s mouth. You’re not near enough to see if those lines are laughing or frowning.