Your life has moved online this year, and the effects have been surprising
COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns have had a huge impact on the UK and the rest of the world, but it’s also radically changed how we view and use technology for the better, permanently revolutionising our health and wellness!
9 Dec 2020
Not only have we as a nation stayed connected with our friends and family using apps that we’d never used before and learnt totally new skills online, but according to our research, we’re going to stick with these new habits long after COVID is history
In fact:
- A whopping 82% of us have been able to stay in contact with loved ones the same or more during lockdown thanks to the internet
- And more than a quarter will continue this level of contact online even after COVID restrictions are lifted
- More than half of us learnt a new skill online during the pandemic, from knitting to engineering
- More than 1 in 10 of us took part in their first ever exercise class during lockdown
- Only 14% will go back to doing everything in person once COVID restrictions are lifted
It’s great that many of us will be walking out of lockdown with more strings to our bows than when we went in, but we must take a minute to imagine how difficult 2020 has been for people who live in rural areas with poor, or even no internet connection.
Gigaclear works to connect some of the most underserved communities in the UK to ultrafast full-fibre broadband, and we think this year highlights just how important that work is.
To find out if your rural property is eligible for a connection to our ultrafast full-fibre broadband, use our post code checker.
N.B. For those interested parties, the research was carried out amongst 2,000 UK consumers in November 2020. We used Censuswide to obtain the results, gauging personal opinion from across the breadth of the UK.