Month: April 2020

  • FIR Zoom Chat 5: How We’ll Get Back to Work

    FIR Zoom Chat 5: How We’ll Get Back to Work

    The fifth weekly Zoom Chat featuring listeners and FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz. Our primary discussion continues to focus on coronavirus and lockdowns, and how communicators, businesses, and whole industries – automotive and airlines to name but two…

  • FIR 194: The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020

    FIR 194: The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020

    The April episode of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” continues the coronavirus theme from March with conversations about… Our experience being Zoombombed The role of social media during Covid-19 How toilet paper companies are responding to online criticism over shortages…

  • FIR Zoom Chat 4: Zoom burnout

    FIR Zoom Chat 4: Zoom burnout

    With so many people using video conferencing tools – especially Zoom – in their new-normal working from home lockdown environment, there’s a rise in anxiety and stress when it comes to using a tool like this as your primary method…

  • Zoom burnout is real

    Zoom burnout is real

    “Zoom gives me crazy anxiety and the same social pressure I would feel being invited to a party,” says Dani, a marketing manager based in Cleveland, who requested that only her first name be used to protect her workplace privacy.…

  • Living in Lockdown

    Living in Lockdown

    On March 23, 2020, the UK went into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and the consequent emergence of the COVID-19 infection. Since then, it’s been a time of staying home for large numbers of the population, regaled daily by…