local
“Relationships have become
stronger and more meaningful.

We’re very close now.”
DANIELA BURG
friends on the phone. Plus, she feels
closer with the fi tness women who she
has managed to keep in touch with and
continue to see.

Burg’s relationships are now about
quality over quantity, she said.

“Relationships have become stron-
ger and more meaningful,” she added.

“We’re very close now.”
In one sense, COVID has divided
and/or isolated people; but in another,
it has brought them closer together.

T.J. Kozin of Jameson believes it
might be more of the latter.

Even political polarization, usually
considered a source of division, has
connected people around mutual inter-
ests, according to Kozin. And these are
oft en people who, in less political and
local times, may never have spoken.

“A lot of people just went to work,
cooked dinner and went to bed,” Kozin
said of pre-pandemic times. “Now they
might go to work, come home, go to a
school board meeting and go to bed.”
Fred Poritsky, a Richboro resident
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and bad points.

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“It’s easier to take care of your children, get
your kids to preschool. It’s given people a
better life-work experience.”
FRED PORITSKY
Fred Poritsky of Richboro misses in-person meetings.

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who runs a digital marketing agency,
doesn’t see this new social dynamic
changing, either.

Poritsky said he misses in-person
meetings and interactions in general,
and that he sees them as part of his
company’s future. But he understands
that work culture has shift ed, and that
the hybrid paradigm is likely here
to stay.

He also called that a good thing.

“It’s easier to take care of your chil-
dren, get your kids to preschool,”
Poritsky said. “It’s given people a better
life-work experience.”
But in this new environment, as
Poritsky and others explained, there
are still questions that people need to
start asking themselves.

When do you leave work? What’s
important for you to go out and do?
Who’s important to you to go out
and see?
“Most people, in some way, are
excited to get back to human contact,”
Poritsky said. JE
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