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Should you mention the coronavirus pandemic in a business email? If so, how?
PH485492 • 9 June 2020
It's impossible to ignore what's happening in the world right now. So, here's some advice on how best to mention the covid-19 pandemic in an email to a business contact.
We spend much of our professional lives sending emails.
Adobe in the USA carried out a survey that showed that the average American office worker spends five hours a day checking emails.
Sending emails has become a reflex, something we do without thinking. We hardly give any thought to how to write an email.
We all have our preferred expressions and styles and most of the time, very little thought goes into what or rather how we express ourselves. But now times have changed. The world has changed. We cannot ignore the change.
So when we are sending emails, perhaps from our sitting room in a pair of pijamas, it seems almost surreal or even inappropriate to send a work email without making some kind of reference to what’s going on right now.
In this podcast, I make a few suggestions on how to begin and end your business emails without completely ignoring the pandemic. Happy listening!
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