‘Tens of millions will probably be working at home for several months at a time, that means the best brains running a business will likely be focussed on producing better WFH procedures,’ predicts Devangshu Datta.
In these, a disaster is assumed by the writer and imagines how the planet will manage in the aftermath.
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How the world is going to change after coronavirus
‘Tens of millions will probably be working at home for several months at a time, that means the best brains running a business will likely be focussed on producing better WFH procedures,’ predicts Devangshu Datta.
IMAGE: A automatic robot, created by start up tight Asimov Robotics, distributes sanitisers and face masks and provides info about precautions after it had been set in motion to spread awareness about the coronavirus, in Kochi. Photograph: Sivaram V/Reuters
Far more like this’ The disease is circulating. It’s virtually everywhere”The virus is spreading. It’s virtually everywhere’
A favorite sub genre of science fiction is the’ post-apocalyptic’ novel.
In these, a disaster is assumed by the writer and imagines how the planet will manage in the aftermath.
It might be nuclear war; it can be climate change; it might be an alien attack; it may be a killer disease.
COVID-19 does not qualify as a killer illness such as the flu outlined in Stephen King’s The Stand or even the alien condition Michael Crichton dreamt up in The Andromeda Strain.
Covid-19 has essentially low mortality rate.
It’s far less lethal than real life Ebola, SARS and Nipah.
Regardless of the lower mortality rate, however, COVID-19 will, change the planet in ways which those diseases didn’t.
Ebola, Nipah, MERS and SARS, et al, had been contained outbreaks.
COVID-19 is not.
It began in China and has since distributed to each big country.
The economic damage is much higher, and the absolute death toll magnitudes more.
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How the world is going to change after coronavirus
By Devangshu Datta
March 23, 2020 10:56 IST
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‘Tens of millions will probably be working at home for several months at a time, that means the best brains running a business will likely be focussed on producing better WFH procedures,’ predicts Devangshu Datta.
IMAGE: A automatic robot, created by start up tight Asimov Robotics, distributes sanitisers and face masks and provides info about precautions after it had been set in motion to spread awareness about the coronavirus, in Kochi. Photograph: Sivaram V/Reuters
Far more like this’ The disease is circulating. It’s virtually everywhere”The virus is spreading. It’s virtually everywhere’
Mumbai: After the lockdown
Mumbai: After the lockdown
A favorite sub genre of science fiction is the’ post-apocalyptic’ novel.
In these, a disaster is assumed by the writer and imagines how the planet will manage in the aftermath.
It might be nuclear war; it can be climate change; it might be an alien attack; it may be a killer disease.
COVID-19 does not qualify as a killer illness such as the flu outlined in Stephen King’s The Stand or even the alien condition Michael Crichton dreamt up in The Andromeda Strain.
Covid-19 has essentially low mortality rate.
It’s far less lethal than real life Ebola, SARS and Nipah.
Regardless of the lower mortality rate, however, COVID-19 will, change the planet in ways which those diseases didn’t.
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Ebola, Nipah, MERS and SARS, et al, had been contained outbreaks.
COVID-19 is not.
It began in China and has since distributed to each big country.
The economic damage is much higher, and the absolute death toll magnitudes more.
IMAGE: A male shows the hand of his that had been stamped by airport terminal authorities in Mumbai as he was encouraged home quarantine after he showed up from overseas. Photograph: Prashant Waydande/Reuters
The post-COVID-19 era is going to be different in a few important ways from the earth in November 2019.
Industries are going to re-engineer their inner work procedures and retool supply chains.
Some service industries will virtually evaporate, although they’ll definitely rise again, in various avatars.
Policymakers are going tohave to rethink established wisdom on handling public healthcare and transport.
Insurers are about to have to go over premium assumptions.
Manufacturers all over the world have been struck by the absence of vital parts out of China.
They’ve already begun producing better models for identifying serious weaknesses and gaps in the supply chains of theirs.
Multinational businesses will certainly find ways to diversify source chains across regions to make sure they’re better prepared another time something this way happens.
This can contribute to costs: China is a hub since it’s the most affordable and best producer of anything at machine.
Second, manufacturers are going to look at ways to sanitise embed, factories, and workspaces a paradigm of societal distancing in business work culture.
Any labour intensive industry is going to have to find this out.
Whether it is a construction site, a factory, a server ant farm, or a textile sweat shop, no business is able to live with the chance that employees placed cheek by jowl is infected en masse.
Insurers that are now considering writing pandemic disruption policies won’t be pleased with existing work processes, meaning lenders will even be unhappy, meaning companies have powerful incentives to change.
The office, as being a management centre, will most likely decline in importance.
Tens of millions will probably be working at home for several months at a time, that means the best brains running a business will likely be focussed on producing better WFH processes.
There’ll be big investments in equipment which empower better WFH.
Each key city survives, as well as flourishes, on the foundations of a strong public transportation system, whether it is a metro, or perhaps rapid transit buses, or perhaps ride hailing cabs.
Those systems are going to need being assessed and municipalities will must look for methods to sanitise them to support for the following crisis.
Transport industries including aviation, railways and shipping go through hell until this crisis is over.
They are about have to create catastrophe management systems to engender trust in users.
The entertainment sector, as well as its close family member, organised sports, should weather this knock and look for ways to substitute online viewers for live spectators.
