Parking Lot Drops, 10Qs on Etch-A-Sketch: Covid-19’s Real Work

Everyone knew what to do: Parking lot. Broad daylight. Bring the files. Wear gloves.

Whisper.

Warrenetta Baker donned a mask and tried not to breathe too deeply. Her team knew the drill. It did these sorts of exchanges all the time, without anxieties. But that was before the global pandemic.

Which is why Baker, Capital One Financial Corp.‘s chief tax counsel, and her team created this carefully coordinated meet-up to notarize tax papers. It was an example of how the pandemic has turned the most mundane tasks of daily business into potential matters of life and death, ...