As business owners and employees navigate the new normal, here are some of the ways they have adapted to stay operating amid a global pandemic.
Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China.outbreak has changed the way thousands of companies operate in an unprecedented manner.
"I’ve done a couple of webinars with groups of companies. As of about a week and a half ago they weren’t doing anything, there wasn’t anything different," Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, told ABC News.
A sign explaining that a bookstore will remain closed, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in New York, March 26, 2020.Some industries, like airlines, have not been able to find their footing as ridership has plummeted amid the crisis, leading them to. And millions of workers have already filed for unemployment, even as companies scramble to hire workers to accommodate the new realities of the socially distanced and increasingly delivery economy.
Moreover, in recent months, Cappelli said there has been a shift in the way employers regard their workers, and it has been in vogue for business leaders to refer to employees as"stakeholders" not just workers. Cappelli predicts this health crisis is one of the first obstacles to put that to the test.
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