We are all heroes without capes – if we back off

As a recently certified Emily Post Business Etiquette trainer, I have been delivering sessions at Edith Cowan University about the usual stuff: how to write an email, how to work a room, how to post on LinkedIn without looking awkward or cringey. I was recently asked to write an article for one of my favourite publications, The Conversation,  interviewed on ABC radio and on a breakfast show on the social norm of greetings and the demise of the handshake or hug. The article posits this: while most greeting rituals denote status, dominance, relationship and cultural norms, not touching each other does one more thing. It contributes to communal well being.