Reinventing Workers for the Post-COVID Economy
The nation’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will hinge ( ) to some extent ( ) on how quickly show managers can become electricians ( ), whether taxi drivers can become plumbers ( ), and how many cooks can manage software for a bank.
This is likely to prove especially problematic for millions of low-paid workers in service industries like retailing ( ), hospitality ( ), building maintenance and transportation, which may be permanently impaired ( ) or fundamentally transformed. What will janitors ( ) do if fewer people work in offices? What will waiters do if the urban restaurant ecosystem never recovers its density ( )?
Their prognosis ( ) is bleak ( ). Marcela Escobari, an economist at the Brookings Institution, warns that even if the economy adds jobs as the coronavirus risk fades ( ), “the rebound won’t help the people that have been hurt the most.”
Looking back over 16 years of data, Escobari finds that workers in the occupations ( ) most heavily hit since the spring will have a difficult time reinventing themselves. Taxi drivers, dancers and front-desk clerks have poor track records moving to jobs as, say, registered nurses, pipe layers or instrumentation technicians.
COVID is abruptly ( ) taking out a swath ( ) of jobs that were thought to be comparatively ( ) resilient ( ), in services that require personal contact with customers. And the jolt ( ) has landed squarely on workers with little or no education beyond high school, toiling ( ) in the low-wage service economy.
“The damage to the economy and particularly to workers will probably be longer lasting than we think it is going to be,” said Peter Beard, senior vice president at the Greater Houston Partnership, an economic development group.
What’s more, he said, COVID will intensify underlying ( ) dynamics ( ) that were already transforming ( ) the workplace. Automation ( ), for one, will most likely accelerate ( ) as employers seek to protect their businesses from future pandemics
The challenge is not insurmountable ( ). Yet despite scattered ( ) success stories, moving millions of workers into new occupations remains an enormous ( ) challenge.
“We need a New Deal ( ) for skills,” said Amit Sevak, president of Revature, a company that hires workers, trains them to use digital tools and helps place them in jobs. “President Roosevelt deployed ( ) the massive number of workers unemployed in the Great Depression on projects that created many of the dams ( ) and roads and bridges we have. We need something like that.”
勞工轉型以因應後疫情時代經濟
美國經濟能否從新型冠狀病毒影響下復甦,將在一定程度上取決於表演經理們要多久才能變成電工,計程車司機能否化身為水管工,以及有多少廚師能替銀行管理軟體。
這對零售業、餐旅業、建築維修和運輸業等服務業數百萬低薪工人來說,問題恐怕特別大。這些行業可能受到永久性損害或發生根本性改變。若辦公室裡人變少了,工友要做什麼呢?若都市餐廳生態系統繁盛不再,服務生又該如何?
他們的前景是黯淡的。布魯金斯學會經濟學家Marcela Escobari警告說,即使就業機會隨新型冠狀病毒疫情風險消退而增加,「經濟反彈也幫不了那些受創最重的人」。
Escobari檢視16年來的數據發現,今春以來受衝擊最大的一些職業,勞工將很難自我改造。計程車司機、舞者和櫃檯人員轉行從事護理師、舖管工或儀器技工等工作者十分有限。
新型冠狀病毒突然帶走了一大批原本被認為較不容易永久消失的工作,即需與客戶面對面接觸的服務工作。這一衝擊直接打擊到那些僅受過高中教育、在低薪服務經濟區塊中掙扎的勞工。
經濟發展組織大休士頓商會資深副總裁Peter Beard表示:「經濟、尤其是勞工們受害的時間,可能比我們預期的還要更長。」
他說,更重要的是,新型冠狀病毒疫情將強化已經在改變職場的潛在動力,自動化即為一例,由於雇主力求讓自己的企業未來不受大疫情影響,自動化極可能加速。
這項挑戰並非不能克服。然而,儘管有少數成功的例子,讓數百萬勞工轉業仍是巨大的挑戰。
雇用勞工後培訓他們使用數位工具,並幫他們找到工作的Revature公司總裁Amit Sevak說:「我們需要一項針對職業技能的新政。小羅斯福總統大蕭條時期把大量失業勞工投入工程計畫,興建了我們現在使用的水壩、道路與橋樑。我們需要這樣的東西。」
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【The Only Constant in Life is Change 改變是唯一不變,對疫情當下和議情過後可能對於線上市場行銷的變化觀察,並分享對哈佛商學院相關文章讀後感】
COVID-19 in 2020 is a global pandemic which changed the way we work and live. Consumer preferences, consumer behaviors, new products and services, size of the market, and the use of technology and regulations are all changing under COVID-19. And marketing professionals around the world need to adapt quickly with the evolving global business environment.
At my current workplace, our original marketing plan which was approved late last year was completely abolished after COVID-19. We are not alone. Businesses around the world are experiencing the same thing. Jill Avery and Richard Edelman wrote on the Harvard Business School website that “Recognizing that their existing brand creative might strike the wrong tone with people fearful for their own and their community’s health, and anxious about their personal and the world’s rapidly deteriorating economic situation, the Walmart marketing team pivoted quickly to produce and air new advertising creative that tapped into the rapidly changing zeitgeist. The result, the Retail Heroes campaign, featured CEO McMillon Zooming in remotely from home to thank the one million Walmart front line employees for their dedication to their work, he calls them heroes, not just to the company, but also to people around the globe.”
Very few governments around the world had make in-depth efforts to prepare for pandemics at the COVID-19 level. The US, so called ‘leader of the free world’ is not handling the COVID-19 situation well. In fact, COVID-19 is out of control in the US. Currently, there are over 5.88 million confirmed cases and 181K death. This has a strong impact on the confidence of the general public and dramatically changing consumer behaviours.
Some less known places, such as Taiwan has been doing a great job fighting COVID-19. Taiwan suffered from SARS back in 2003 and it had forced the island to create better defense system and immediate response mechanism towards outbreak of viruses.
Taiwan has over 23 million people (similar to Australia. The population in Australia is about 24 million.) and it’s a very densely populated place. Geographically, it’s very close to mainland China and because of this, a lot of people, including top health professionals predicted that Taiwan would soon fall to COVID-19 and it would be very difficult to control it. But so far, the COVID-19 confirmed cases are 487 and 7 death in Taiwan. Comparing to most European countries, America and Australia, COVID-19 is under control in Taiwan. Business are open as usual in Taiwan and consumer confidence remains. But its travel industry still took a fatal hit. And it might take years to recover.
Across the globe, many countries are facing one of the biggest public health crises in recent history. And the economic impact is too large to even start to comprehend. As a key feature during COVID19 is how consumers are struggling to make ends meet. Millions of people are out of jobs or close to lose their jobs. This changed the general public’s confidence in governments and altered consumer purchasing habits. Therefore, digital marketing strategies for businesses are evolving with the current situation.
More conservative approach is more suited to the current turbulent environment. Definitely seeing a massive decrease in confidence for businesses to try new marketing plan of actions. Due to the infectious nature of this pandemic, businesses have shifted their marketing efforts online. Although it is hard to see it, but the upside of turbulent markets is that opportunities and new resources are being created continuously, and that agile organisations should be actively seeking global turbulent markets and opportunities. For example, the online telecommunications providers are experiencing enormous growth. Online industries, across retail, health and education are all thriving and developing during COVD19 phase. A familiar brand name under COVID-19 is ZOOM. Zoom says it has “more than 300 million daily users” and that “more than 300 million people around the world are using Zoom during this challenging time.”
“The only constant in life is change” – Heraclitus. The ability to adapt according to the changing environment is key to success to businesses. And this is the same for digital marketing strategies.
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上週,歐洲發生大規模洪水造成上百人死亡。橫跨大西洋, 大規模的野火正在美國西部燃燒。 科學家警告,這些極端天氣是全球暖化的明顯徵兆。 幾年前,談論氣候變遷時都覺得是未來的事,但現在已無法再等,因為它正在發生。
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0:00 Intro
0:13 第一遍英文朗讀 (慢)
3:21 新聞單字片語解說
21:26 第二遍英文朗讀 (快)
本集提到的單字片語有:
Global warming 全球暖化
Climate change 氣候變遷
Fossil fuel 化石燃料
Greenhouse gases 溫室氣體
Greenhouse effect 溫室效應
Carbon dioxide 二氧化碳
Ozone 臭氧
Extreme weather 極端氣候
Affected area(s) 受災地區
Germany 德國
Belgium 比利時
Netherlands 荷蘭
Luxembourg 盧森堡
Death toll 死亡人數
The Atlantic (Ocean) 大西洋
Drought 乾旱
Death Valley (加州) 死亡谷
Celsius 攝氏度
Live indefinitely 無限期地活著
Humidity 濕度
Plays an important role 扮演重要角色
Wildfires 野火 / 森林大火
Hectares 公頃
Contained (火勢) 已控制
Uncontained (火勢) 未控制
Firefighters 消防人員
Climate scientists 氣候科學家
Cut emissions 減少排放
European Commission (EU) 歐盟
Paris Climate Agreement 巴黎協定
Massive 巨大、大量
Huge
Enormous
Gigantic
Colossal
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For this video, we headed down to Monster Curry at Chinatown Point to devour 3 Enormous Monster Curry Ramen Bowls! Monster Curry is a Japanese curry chain with outlets all across Singapore that serves up delicious Demi-Glace Japanese curry with a variety of fried toppings like Pork and Chicken Katsu. They recently released a Combo Curry Ramen, coming in 3 versions, each with massive portions and toppings and able to feed 2-3 people (at $29.80).
For my challenge, I tackled all 3 versions simultaneously. They are served with your choice of toppings nicely plated on a large saucer that is placed atop a massive bowl of curry ramen. The 3 versions are themed, with “Sea Monster” being seafood focused, “Mountain Monster” being pork focused and “Monster Combo” being a mixture. However, since I was doing all 3, we combined all of them together onto one plate and bowl, forming a “Mega Combo Curry Ramen”.
The noodles were thicker and chewier than your standard ramen noodles, working well with the dense and rich curry broth. The standout topping would be the fried fish, sliced thinly and breaded. It was superbly crunchy and flavourful, further compounded when you drown it in the rich and savoury curry.
The rich and luxurious curry is perfect in small doses, but eating a 9-person serving became quite the hardship towards the end. I think ordering 1 Monster Combo Curry Ramen would be perfect as a shared dish (at $10 per person for 3 people) and worth a try for what is possibly the only curry ramen in Singapore. Head down to Monster Curry, with outlets island-wide, to try this unique and varied Combo Curry Ramen!
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For this video, we went down to Xperience Restaurant at SO/ Sofitel Singapore to complete their Mother of All Brunches tower! We invited a lucky fan over, Snowclock (@snowclock on IG) to tackle the Mother of All Brunches tower with Zermatt. Xperience Restaurant is a chic eatery that offers enormous 3-tiered towers and platters for brunch every Saturday with a regularly changing menu. We also have a giveaway and a discount code, details below.
For this challenge, we got their biggest tower, the Mother of All Towers ($268++), and free-flow Gin and Brut ($68++ per person). The tower came beautifully presented in three majestic tiers, with dessert on the highest, protein in the middle and charcuterie-lite on the bottom tier. As advertised, it was formidable and could easily feed 4-5 people with a broad variety of food, ranging from steak to pancakes. The alcohol comes in the form a cart wheeled by the bartender and he crafts it right in front of you based on your preference (or let the bartender decide).
According to the staff, this tower has yet to be completed by 2 people. With Zermatt’s hurting teeth, Snowclock stepped up to the challenge and made it look easy. This makes them possibly the first pair to finish the Mother of All Towers. It is a worthwhile experience at Xperience’s Mother of All Brunches for a large sharing feast, with aesthetic yet delicious food and alcohol to bump up the pleasure.
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