aka Can we just say it? We’re all tired of Online Meetings

No two ways about it - we’ve all been in waaaaaaay too many online meetings since the last eAGM in 2020. While it was new and exciting a year ago (despite the strange and new and often scary situation of a worldwide pandemic) and we were all so relieved to be able to see one another for the AGM last year, this year feels... different.

So let’s just give it a name: it’s the “Online-Meeting fatigue spectrum”....

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