Acerca do novo normal

Alguns temas a ter em consideração no novo normal:

"1. Companies that traffic in digital services and e-commerce will make immediate and lasting gains
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2. Remote work will become the default...
Remote work technology will improve, enabling the sort of mingling previously thought to require in-person meetings. This will cause a severe downturn for commercial real estate as companies drastically cut the size of their workspaces.
Coupled with stricter travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines for foreigners entering certain countries, this will also put severe strain on industries reliant on business travel. It will also lead to an exodus of white-collar workers from big cities [Moi ici: Tenho algumas dúvidas. Mongo apela à criatividade e isso requer proximidade, cumplicidade, partilha, discussão que poderão não ser tão eficazes quanto o estar na mesma sala, na mesma esplanada, no mesmo espaço] — once companies’ remote work routines have been smoothed out, their newly remote-capable employees will have the flexibility to move out of dense cities and into lower-cost areas.
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3. Many jobs will be automated, and the rest will be made remote-capableTo survive the crisis, firms will need to lay off their least-productive workers, automate what can be automated, and make the rest remote-capable.
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In short, jobs will first move from in-person to remote-domestic, and in time they will go from remote-domestic to remote-overseas. [Moi ici: Mais dúvidas acerca disto. Mongo é interacção, é customização, Mongo é arte, Mongo não é vómito, Mongo não é race to the bottom. Outra vez a doença anglo-saxónica]
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4. Telemedicine will become the new normal, signaling an explosion in med-tech innovationIn a matter of weeks, regulatory barriers to telemedicine in the U.S. have largely fallen. ... Though these measures were announced as temporary, those who have now had firsthand experience with the convenience and cost-effectiveness of telemedicine will not want to forgo it. Once the crisis recedes, health care will begin to be provided remotely by default, not necessity, allowing the best doctors to scale their services to far more patients. [Moi ici: Por cá duvido. A corporação é muito forte... só talvez a necessidade do SNS poupar dinheiro pressione este desenvolvimento]
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5. The nationwide student debt crisis will finally abate as higher education begins to move online...
Universities will also face pressure to cut costs from the severely cash-strapped state governments that fund them. Many will eventually adopt hybrid models that limit face-to-face learning to project-based assignments and student working groups. These will dramatically cut costs, while allowing the best instructors to scale their insights to more students. They might also make a compelling case for broadening access to elite universities, whose small cohorts have historically been justified on the basis of physical constraints inherent to classrooms and campuses.
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6. Goods and people will move less often and less freely across national and regional borders...
Even before the pandemic struck, higher wages in China, international trade wars, and the rise of semi-autonomous factories had already prompted firms to reshore manufacturing, bringing it closer to domestic research and development centers. The coronavirus crisis will accelerate this trend: Increasingly, corporations will favor the resiliency of centralized domestic supply chains over the efficiency of globalized ones. Lacking support to protect the shared gains of worldwide economic integration and globalized supply chains, the multilateral institutions of global governance established in the 20th century will, if temporarily, begin to fray."

Trechos retirados de "7 Predictions for a Post-Coronavirus World"

"“People in the past dined out with their colleagues in their lunch hour, now they’re all getting lunchboxes,” he says, sitting in a booth at an empty Sichuan restaurant he operates. “They’re more likely to cook at home than go out.”
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Xiong’s experience provides a window into the uncertain future facing small-business owners around the globe as they contemplate life after lockdowns. While many hope to pick up where they left off, Wuhan’s cautious emergence shows it likely won’t be that easy. The city, once a bustling hub for steel and auto manufacturing, remains gripped by fear of reinfection. Companies are testing employees before they’re allowed back to work and disinfecting their premises daily. If a customer or worker gets the virus, businesses typically have to shut down again for weeks of quarantine—something even the most painstakingly prepared business plan can’t predict."

Trechos retirados de "Wuhan’s 11 Million People Are Free to Dine Out. Yet They Aren’t"