This article is based on the premise that the Covid-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented experience in contemporary social work education, and that it presents unique challenges to all involved in practice teaching and require a comprehensive understanding of what has been termed as 'New Normal'...
COVID-19 accelerated a shift to remote work and virtual meetings. Even after the pandemic, most companies are planning to continue some form of work from home. Additionally, McKinsey’s Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Practice estimates that 20 percent of business travel may be permanently re...
Microsoft Teams is also used to communicate with seafarers who are about to sign onto a vessel, but currently at home, providing updates on what is going on, and opportunities to ask questions. This may be a useful habit for the long term, but “it wouldn’t have happened without Covid,...
For much of this year, IT professionals all over the globe have had their hands full, finding ways to help businesses cope with the fallout of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In many cases, it involved a rapid rollout of significant remote work infrastructure. That infrastructure was cal...
Office work has drastically changed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Learn everything you need to know about how apps are changing workforces worldwide.
COVID-19 Lockdown Social distancing Quarantine Drink behaviour Culture 1. Introduction The management theorist Philip Crosby’s insightful assertion “If anything is certain, it is that change is certain” (Crosby, 1995) has never been so prophetic and has seldom been so relevant to the current ...
This research studies both general outdoor activities, like grocery shopping and social contacts, and the more specific activity of work or education. COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed the behaviours and experiences of these activities, if not due to the direct impact of the virus itself then due...
Four years ago this week, an eighty-two-year-old patient at a Brooklyn hospital became the first person in New York to die from Covid-19. In the time that’s elapsed since, certain memories of those early pandemic days have been relegated to dusty corners of the brain. An NBA season ...
How will personal care and beauty categories perform after the outbreak of Covid-19? We have the following predictions: 1. Short-term influence on hair care During SARS outbreak in 2003 there was no official quarantine policy from government so most consumers still maintained their regular pace...
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed our lives. Take something as fundamental as our experiences of space: our mobility has become severely restricted—reduced to jogs or walks a few kilometres around our homes. Perhaps less obviously, the lockdown has also affected our experiences of tim...