We wrote in July about the systemic risks to the UK economy posed by the rapid move to homeworking since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Empty city centres, boarded-up offices, and a crash in the commercial property market were…
This article is the third of three we have written on the subject of changes in the workplace brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. The first article examined the case for and against homeworking from the perspective of the employee…
In our last article we wrote about the advantages and pitfalls of homeworking from the perspective of the employee. In this article we turn our attention to the employer view. Having said that homeworking is no panacea for employees, it…
Nearly half of UK adults in employment have been working from home as a result of the social distancing measures introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This represents a dramatic shift in the employment habits of the population: as…
In our last article we wrote about the crisis facing universities. In this article we want to turn our attention to one particular branch of learning, executive education. In many respects, the very best executive education has a strong element…
In our first article in this series (Covid-19 what comes next? : http://adamgoldconsulting.co.uk/covid-19-what-comes-next/ ) we highlighted the sectors we felt would be particularly impacted by the effects of the pandemic. We stated that: “any economic activity that has until now…
The last few weeks have seen rapid and quite astonishing changes in organisations all around us. Sleepy, slow-moving giants have made changes to their organisational structures and processes in a matter of days where previously they have struggled to make…
Most of us like to think there is progress in human affairs and that the outlawing of discrimination is an important marker of this progress, taking us closer to the day when old prejudices are cast aside and new forms…
The charge that the Covid-19 outbreak will turn out to be China’s Chernobyl has been doing the rounds in recent weeks. Whether the charge ends up sticking will come down to a number of factors: how reliably the international scientific…
Introduction A great deal is currently being written and published about how to survive and even thrive during the current crisis. This is not what we want to write about. Our intention is to look further out and ask questions…