Lockdown measures are beginning to ease, though some business leaders will be out of the office for a while longer. Are you taking advantage of this extra enforced time at home?
Lockdown measures have forced businesses the world over to quickly adapt to remote working. By now, several products and services have emerged as clear winners in the race to enable business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Defined by the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, a circular economy is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, could such an economy be on the horizon?
The global COVID-19 pandemic has led to businesses facing significant and unprecedented challenges. As the lockdown restrictions begin to be relaxed, some companies may struggle to recover, finding that the damage done to their finances and the daily ongoing struggle to control cash flow is just too much for the business to continue.
While COVID-19 provided a catalyst for many UK businesses to rapidly change the way they work, employers should use the current lockdown as an opportunity to start planning for the end of self-isolation and a ‘new normal’ in working practices.
Many organisations have struggled and floundered during the initial peak of the virus. Yet business leaders continue to face unprecedented challenges. Even those who have weathered the storm so far have now discovered the critical importance of taking decisive, proactive measures to inspire confidence in customers, staff, and shareholders alike.
Many businesses have put recruitment on hold during the current pandemic in light of the uncertainty that the COVID-19 outbreak has cast over the economic future. Yet, when the lockdown eases and business ‘as near normal as possible’ resumes, many will once again need to turn their thoughts to the hiring process.
Through the mass introduction of remote working and the newfound prevalence of the daily news cycle, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought permanent changes that must be adapted to.
Households are emerging from their cocoons. People are tentatively venturing outdoors to exercise more, socialise responsibly in open spaces, go to work, and thereby interact with out-of-home advertising. Business leaders should be paying attention.
Our way of life has changed in ways that were unimaginable just months ago. The world is facing its biggest challenge since World War II. Millions of people are now working from home, adapting to new ways of life.
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