I'm curious how everyone here is currently handling client meetings and plans to handle them moving forward.
I have postponed (indefinitely) all client lunch meetings and instead do everything over the phone and email. I did this because, to be honest, I'm a little nervous about my liability exposure. e.g. I schedule a lunch meeting for a client, we meet, eat lunch and catch up. He or she catches COVID, regardless of during that outing or some other in the days surrounding it, and, worst case scenario, passes away. The finger is pointed at me.
Of course, that is absolutely worst case scenario, and perhaps a little paranoid, but it still gives me pause.
I don't know if I see any change in my above protocol of mine for remainder of 2020. My state is one of those "out of control" states blasted in the media, and we're likely to see a mask mandate in my city pretty soon now that my governor has stopped threatening my mayor with lawsuits over mask mandates (comforting I know).
I am comfortable going out to the grocery store and even getting takeout for myself, but client meetings are a different story because I feel responsible for what happens thereafter. Clients may not realize this, so I am trying to balance looking like a wuss with what I believe to be a genuine business risk.
What do you think? What are you and your employees doing? Are you in an urban area? Suburban? Rural?