Covid-19 forces us to rethink. What can we take from the experience and positive-creative implementation of the lockdown into the post-virus era? What can a healthy and sustainable future look like in a broad sense and what consequences does this have for our present? Sustainability and climate protection will remain defining issues, because global warming also has health consequences. Climate protection is therefore essential in many respects. Act today, question behavior, put the tried and tested to the test and, if necessary, continue or adapt, dare to do something new: courage is required, with companies and with each individual. Travel activity in companies will increase again and will be put to the test in the future: for reasons of health, for cost reasons and not least for climate protection reasons. A comprehensive accounting of real travel costs, the carbon footprint and other environmental parameters will become the basis for future decisions. The benefits for employees and companies are obvious: stress reduction for travelling employees, improved climate balance, positive influence on operating profit and, last but not least, increasing employer attractiveness. Technical solutions, such as video, web and telephone conferences, as well as the creative use of VR, augmented or blended technologies offer alternatives. In the future, unavoidable business trips will have to be assessed according to new, not cost-driven aspects, but in a balance between economic, ecological and social-societal interests.
