The New Normal in 2021

 

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that predicting the future is practically impossible.

 

The Covid-19 pandemic derailed any personal or professional goals that were set at the start of the new decade. The promise of the New Year quickly became a mandatory quarantine which changed the way in which we work for the future.

 

Out went the in-person meetings and in came the rise of virtual meetings. Zoom fatigue may be some kind of epidemic in office culture, while companies have adapted toward remote working (and in some cases, implemented permanently).

 

Return dates to the office remain murky as companies continue to push back dates until a vaccine is available to the general populace. The commute remains sacrificed and quick jolts around the block are hard to come by before at-home responsibilities like childcare creep in the way of Excel spreadsheets. Keeping this in mind, what exactly should workers expect heading into 2021?

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The New Normal at work. Whether it’s planning your next job search or sticking around hoping for a promotion at your current company, these uncertainties are on-par for what 2020 has done to create this new norm. The anxieties of keeping your head down or carving out a new path in your career will continue to be there, but a little navigation heading into 2021 could help especially knowing what to expect when looking to newer opportunities for your business or making an argument for more responsibilities at your current job. The business arena will be fluid and we have to remain dynamic and adaptable to it.

 

Networking in 2021. Perhaps more than ever, networking has become the secret most important piece to the growth of your business. Networking can always feel soul-crushing and bit awkward at times. With limitations to in-person gatherings and after-work coffees, networking in the coronavirus age has been shifted digitally to online career platforms that essentially make it feel like cold calling a home during an election.

Getting over networking anxiety starts with actually doing it (trust me, it’ll make you feel good once you do it often enough), but there’s something to be said about how important it is in this current climate.

 

The only way to actually standout is networking. People have to remember that companies do not want to go through the process and not have success with it.

 

Platforms like Twitter or LinkedIn would seem like unconventional places to network earlier but it can also be a more personal way of introducing yourself and connecting on something other than work in this new normal – for the New Year and maybe the foreseeable future, which we hope has to be bigger and brighter.