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Thank you for your thoughts @Davide.Mattesini – this was well written.
I have two suggestions for you:
The number of online meetings I do since the pandemic broke out has practically doubled.
This isn’t wrong grammatically, but it sounds a bit unnatural. We would use either the present continuous- to show it is a temporary action or something happening int his moment:
▶️ The number of online meetings I’m doing since the pandemic broke out has practically doubled.
or, the present perfect continuous to show that something started in the past and is continuing at the present time.
▶️ The number of online meetings I’ve been doing since the pandemic broke out has practically doubled.
Then,
In fact, before remote meetings were only used for outsiders, now they are used to communicate with all colleagues as well.
When you use before you need to stipulate ‘what’ so you can say either:
▶️In fact, before Covid, remote meetings were ….
▶️ In fact, beforehand, remote meetings were …
▶️ In fact, pre-Covid, remote meetings were
Let me know if you need anything clarified!