Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is about how to build and maintain close ties

with people you mostly see virtually.

In the past few weeks, plenty of people have been trying remote work for the first time.

It's necessary under the circumstances, but I know that for many people,

there's an assumption that it's a poor substitute for an in-person

connection. Whole industries of business travel have been built around the idea

that in order for people to work well and creatively together,

they need to spend a lot of time face to face.

As someone who's been working from home since 2002,

I think this is kind of ridiculous.

As one example, I co-host my other podcast, Best of Both Worlds,

with Sarah Hart Unger, who's a practicing physician who lives in Florida.

I live in Pennsylvania.

She and I have seen each other in person just half a dozen times

over the last five years. But we have managed to start and run an enterprise together and have

quite a bit of fun doing it.

These things don't need to be either or.

I'm certainly not saying that you never need to see people in person.

But we won't all be engaged in social distancing forever.

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