Industries that rely heavily on business travel are basically fucked. Airlines (first and business class), hotels, ridesharings, car rentals and etc.
Hardly a fair comparison. You don't have to love, or even have any real feelings towards business colleagues, customers etc.
The opposite to a long distance relationship.
The issue in LDRs is mostly lack of intimacy these days, since you can easily be connected all the time.
I'm not sure you would need this from someone in sales from company X.
As you say the problem would be _building_ relationships, which is different from _maintaining_ them.
People have been leaving their parents' place for a very long time, but this rarely means become estranged, because the relationship is already there, and it's not that hard to maintain.
And trust is the foundation of both romantic relationships and business relationships.
People don't want to sit at home all day in zoom calls. You can try to prevent people from being able to see each other in person, but those attempts will always eventually fail.
It's hard to predict the post lockdown world is what I'm saying.
- company pays to fly me out (biz class) - puts me in a decent hotel for a week - I need to get from hotel to wherever we go (rideshare) hopefully it’s walking distance but not always.
This happens once every quarter or so given covid has stopped.
We might have real offices again some day but till then it’s all ephemeral stays and juicing the industry you say is fucked.