The world after Coronavirus: Technology Creates New Habits

As the COVID-19 pandemic changed the whole perspective of life, we used to live and how we dramatically adjusted our lifestyle based on it. Studies show that it takes a minimum of 21 days to get used to a new habit and during this period, we wonder if we will be able to snap back to our regular life. At the end of this period, some people can feel the difference in their habits while changes in practices cannot be seen in others. Additionally, during this period, some new regulation and policies may have an impact on the way we would go about our daily life.

So what changes can we predict when all of this is over? Here are two examples of the way technology changes habits during COVID-19 pandemic.

Online grocery shopping:

Although E-commerce and specifically online grocery are not accessible in our region, the outbreak of Coronavirus and announcing quarantine make many shop owners thinking of using social media and websites as a way of online grocery shopping. They started to use online webpages and profiles in favour of their own business by advertising their items and providing delivery services to customers.

This can be advantageous for both the provider and the customer; the customer will figure out that ordering online is an easy task and on the other hand, the retailer can be aware of the items that people are in need in this period.

Working from home:

Working from home was not something new even before COVID-19 outbreak, but it is trending more nowadays, due to the quarantine.

This can affect the people live in a right way by cancelling expensive trips and using Skype or other video meeting services to hold meetings online, which helps companies in saving money by removing the costs of unnecessary meetings. Remote working can also improve the employees overall computer and remote skills. After the outbreak, some employees may gain secondary knowledge about remote working because of their newly acquired experience. In addition, business owners can also learn how to develop their business by investigating what had benefit for them during this period.