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The benefits of remote working, ignored by many of us during years of toil, were well exposed (or should I say imposed?!) to the eyes of all of us in COVID times, I even dare to say that many of those who at first disregarded the reality of remote work (mea culpa), legitimately foreseeing the added difficulties of discipline, concentration and division between professional and family life, today accept it with relative ease and surprise in view of the advantages of greater autonomy, flexibility and reduction of environmental costs, with which a good part of Portuguese workers and employers have become familiar in recent months.

We, at .PT, have been in remote work since March - the month to which the beginning of "the COVID times” in Portugal goes back - and the significant growth in the percentage of new registered domain names and the serene maintenance of the pace of our activity, are, in my opinion, proof of the preparation of the entire .PT team to adapt to a new work regime (which was not entirely unknown to us) and to new social conditions.

That said, I still want to confess that there are things I miss. I miss the cookies whose regular presence in the office is always promptly justified by creative and greedy minds, I miss the lunches at the kitchen (or not at the kitchen) talking about food while eating, so typically Portuguese, I miss the usual invitations for stubborn addictions, I miss the sight that a .PT indiscreet window offers us every day.

It should be clarified that it is not the teamwork that is lacking, we have it abundantly in the .PT, it is the manifestations of teamwork that are only possible with proximity and physical presence, still confined in a period of uncertainty. 

It is, however, the teamwork that leads me to understand that it is still prudent that we are all as proportionately away as protected and, in the meantime, the teamwork will continue to be lived and experienced every day through the informal gatherings and conversations via Zoom, Teams or another digital platform to which COVID times has presented us.