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Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 15, 2020
Commentary: 5 tips to ace leading a team while working from home
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SINGAPORE: The hashtag #WFH (“working from home”) has dominated social media posts, as Singapore’s “circuit breaker” measures kick in and non-essential workplaces shutter. It is difficult enough to lead teams in the middle of market conditions worsening faster than the 2008 global financial crisis. Try doing that while figuring out split teams and physical isolation,
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 15, 2020
Commentary: Pharmacists can do more on frontlines of COVID-19 fight
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LOS ANGELES, California: Italy’s death toll from the novel coronavirus climbed to one of the highest in the world, its doctors made a plea to other countries: Manage the pandemic in the community, not in hospitals and emergency rooms. When people with COVID-19 show up at hospitals, they can spread the virus to other patients
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 15, 2020
Commentary: Philippines’ COVID-19 fight depends on the exploitation of healthcare workers
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SINGAPORE: Much of the news on the COVID-19 pandemic has focused on government efforts to accumulate provisions needed to combat the virus: Surgical masks, protective equipment, and ventilators. Yet, in the Philippines, the nation’s stockpile apparently includes not only health supplies but health workers as well. Advertisement Advertisement Widely known as a country that “exports”
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 14, 2020
Commentary: Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 illness has made him more powerful
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LONDON: A strange thing happened last week. An awful lot of British voters discovered they were much more attached to Boris Johnson than they realised. Since Brexit, the UK prime minister has been a divisive figure, but his struggle with COVID-19 left all but his most partisan foes shocked, scared and desperate for news of
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 14, 2020
Commentary: It’s not just work and the economy. COVID-19 is also changing how we use social media
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SINGAPORE: COVID-19 has been a highly disruptive period for individuals and societies the world over, as we learn to adjust to a lifestyle where social distancing and virtual communication are the norm, replacing physical intimacy and interactions. While social media has been an integral part of our lives for the past decade, COVID-19 has caused
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 14, 2020
Commentary: Coronavirus? Not a problem for South Korea elections this week
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SEOUL: On Wednesday (Apr 15), South Korea will hold legislative elections. South Korea’s parliament, the National Assembly, is elected every five years. Composed of 300 members, it has 253 single-member district seats and 47 proportional representation seats. Advertisement Advertisement The left currently holds a slim majority, but the distribution of power is fluid. South Korea’s
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 14, 2020
Commentary: How Wuhan mobilised to survive an over-70 day COVID-19 lockdown – and bounced back
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SINGAPORE: After being at home for over 70 days, residents in Wuhan, the initial epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, are emerging cautiously from their residences this week. There is a newfound sense of optimism in the city of 11 million, whose sacrifices and stoicism in putting up with the lockdown have been credited for saving
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 13, 2020
Commentary: Maybe it’s time to pay more for grocery and food deliveries
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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina: A series of recent protests by the workers preparing and delivering our essential foods and other goods highlights a key risk to our ability to combat the coronavirus. Some employees at an Amazon warehouse and Instacart “shoppers” briefly walked off the job on Mar 30, citing inadequate health protections and compensation.
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 13, 2020
Commentary: The time of introverts has come as firms ramp up work-from-home arrangements
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SINGAPORE: As more and more companies implement work from home (WFH) arrangements in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been widely acknowledged that introverts are adjusting to the new norm much more easily that their extroverted colleagues. For years, introverts have had to deal with the energy-sapping exuberance of extroverts in open-plan offices and routinely
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 13, 2020
Commentary: The coronavirus could take climate action with it
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Commentary Commentary In this COVID-19 outbreak, long-term thinking feels like a luxury we cannot afford right now, says Samantha Gross. The coronavirus outbreak has hit the Chinese economy hard, but also lowered the country’s carbon emissions as a result, researchers say. (Photo: AFP/GREG BAKER) 13 Apr 2020 06:05AM(Updated: 13 Apr 2020 06:10AM) Bookmark WASHINGTON DC: I’ve
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 13, 2020
Commentary: COVID-19 collapse exceeds any recession in the last 150 years
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CAMBRIDGE: With each passing day, the 2008 global financial crisis increasingly looks like a mere dry run for today’s economic catastrophe. The short-term collapse in global output now underway already seems likely to rival or exceed that of any recession in the last 150 years. Advertisement Advertisement Even with all-out efforts by central banks and
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 12, 2020
Commentary: The battle over office leave has been worsened by the coronavirus
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Commentary Commentary Annual leave rosters were always a nightmare to devise but now they have become impossible, says the Financial Times’ Pilita Clark. Don’t get too comfortable when working from home. (Photo: Unsplash/Designecologist) 12 Apr 2020 04:54PM(Updated: 12 Apr 2020 05:00PM) Bookmark LONDON: At the start of this year I made a plan to spend
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 12, 2020
Commentary: Beware the incoming pandemic of boredom
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LONDON: As people around the world find themselves in confinement to control the COVID-19 pandemic, look out for another affliction with an even higher infection rate than any virus. Boredom is now a serious health risk. Is it possible that the more preoccupied we become with the physical danger posed by the virus, the more
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Commentary: Smokers, you have a higher risk of COVID-19 infection
NEWCASTLE: If you’re a smoker, there’s really never been a better time to quit. Coronavirus affects your lungs, causing flu-like symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat and fatigue. In the most serious cases, sufferers struggle to breathe at all and can die of respiratory failure. Advertisement Advertisement The World Health Organisation