To shake hands or not? An age-old human gesture now in limbo
The Peninsula
As the pandemic took hold, a Kansas City-area meeting and event planning business began hawking "I Shake Hands” stickers to help ease awkward social encounters.
"We didn’t want the sticker to say, ‘We Don’t Shake Hands’ because that is kind of off-putting,” said John DeLeon, vice president of operations and sales at MTI Events, adding that the idea was that anti-shakers could simply choose not to wear one of the stickers. "But if someone had the sticker on in that group, then that was the indication that it was OK.” Now, as workers return to the office, friends reunite and more church services shift from Zoom to in person, this exact question is befuddling growing numbers of people: to shake or not to shake?More Related News