It’s not just you: Business travel is extra exhausting now
Travel since the start of the pandemic isn’t just different; it’s overloading your brain.
Pre-COVID-19, business consultant Gordon Simmons would travel to the airport each week, to California, Washington, Florida, or even Canada. But when the former president of Service Credit Union returned to the airport in July 2021, he found that 18 months of Zoom calls had left him temporarily depleted of the skills needed for business travel. Each step of the journey now felt like a hurdle. “I found myself feeling anxious about navigating airports, managing jet lag and re-establishing those in-person connections,” says Simmons.
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