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Coronavirus:covid: Do you think your job is safe?
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Originally posted by tazdevil View PostMarkets adjust to suit the environment. The environment will be different moving forward and people will adjust and find new jobs. I predict a downturn in office based jobs and an upturn in home working when companies realise that they can function without offices using modern communications. For us the rage will be virtual businesses with groups coming to together to meet particular challenges and reforming to meet others. New ways of working will come to the fore and being flexible in accepting this will be the key to future employment. The gig economy is in for a boom time but in the short term its all downhill until the current emergency is over.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by fullyautomatix View PostYou sure are a man of many talents! I thought you specialised in aircraft crash investigations and cryptocurrencies. Clearly there is more to you.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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I doubt my contract is safe, clients main end client is looking at reducing the work for my client. The end client is anticipating around 50% drop off in revenue.
But can't complain I'm in a good position.Comment
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I think there will be a massive re-alignment and many people will suffer.
I was listening to LBC this morning an someone phoned up complaining that the bank wouldn't offer them a loan as they were losing money before the crisis started. So there are lots of people who were already on or over the edge.
I quite liked the funny picture that said who was responsible for your digital transformation CEO/CIO/Covid-19 but its true.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by tazdevil View PostMarkets adjust to suit the environment. The environment will be different moving forward and people will adjust and find new jobs. I predict a downturn in office based jobs and an upturn in home working when companies realise that they can function without offices using modern communications. For us the rage will be virtual businesses with groups coming to together to meet particular challenges and reforming to meet others. New ways of working will come to the fore and being flexible in accepting this will be the key to future employment. The gig economy is in for a boom time but in the short term its all downhill until the current emergency is over.
I've personally witnessed a massive shift in working styles with the new generation of grads, they are mucking in together and running businesses from coffee shops, libraries and shared spaces. I think its great and if it takes covid-19 to force this shift, then its a positive to us all.
I also suspect, that once the "tighter" businesses see how much cheaper it is with no heating bills, massive office space rental etc ; they will encourage remote working as much as possible and just have very limited customer facing or 'backend engineering' staff.
I think 2-3 months is massively optimistic for how long this will go on - the longer we mess about with half measures the longer it will go; but personally , its my view that business wont stop, it may falter, but in 10 weeks time we will be back to 60-80% operational capacity - the tech is certainly there .Comment
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Originally posted by Scoobos View PostI also suspect, that once the "tighter" businesses see how much cheaper it is with no heating bills, massive office space rental etc ; they will encourage remote working as much as possible and just have very limited customer facing or 'backend engineering' staff.
I think 2-3 months is massively optimistic for how long this will go on - the longer we mess about with half measures the longer it will go; but personally , its my view that business wont stop, it may falter, but in 10 weeks time we will be back to 60-80% operational capacity - the tech is certainly there .Comment
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Originally posted by tomtomagain View PostIt's going to take a lot of effort to reboot the economy and they cannot be restarted in isolation.
Once the virus is under control and we gotta hope that this social distancing is going to do that within the next 10 days. There's going to be some large death figures in the next week or two :-(
Looking outwards, complete lockdowns are not massively reducing infections to a point where anything is "under control" - italy is still knocking 4 to 5k a day and they've been locked down quite some time now.
We aren't doing a complete lockdown either, yet.
Everything will get better, this will be over within a year and I hope that as a species we will learn from it. The pessimistic side of me, thinks its human nature to say things in bad times like, for example, "wow, I'll always appreciate my husband now, I'll never be mad at him for x ", during a severe illness - but 6 months down the line everything returns to normal. I can see humanity doing the same here , which would be a missed opportunity. We are all one species , at different stages of development, but the illusion of safety and removal from nature has gone too far in the last 20 years - we've just become deniers of science , to suit our agendas - and will ignore problems until they start effecting us. Maybe this behaviour will change.Comment
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Originally posted by fullyautomatix View PostYou sure are a man of many talents! I thought you specialised in aircraft crash investigations and cryptocurrencies. Clearly there is more to you.
No.. I'm engineer / mathematician specialising in reliability & safety analysis."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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