B2B's 2022 challenge: Business during lockdown just got personal

As the Managing Director of Doremus Asia Pacific, a global B2B agency, Barry Colman in Shanghai, along with his colleagues and clients around him, analyses and discusses the different constraints he faces. These challenges exist not only in the work context, but also at the personal level.

I’m writing this from my daughter’s homework desk (she’s stuck at boarding school in Changzhou) in my apartment in Changning district in Shanghai, on what is day 25 of an extended lockdown designed to help tackle the recent outbreak of the Covid-19 virus in the city. I’ve been advised by our district community leaders to stay at home and not go outside too often – essentially to help keep the workload on the teams of community volunteers as low as possible allowing them to concentrate on more important jobs such as food delivery, organising the regular tests we...

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