The Global Pandemic: a Catalyst for Cultural and DEI Awareness in Organizations
by Chris Richardson
As we reached the end of 2021, the year was dominated by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Countries around the world were forced to re-introduce sweeping social restrictions for the first time in living memory. Such nationwide measures were duplicated within organizations in every corner of Planet Earth. Suddenly, office staff from such disparate locations as H .....
Enabling Global Team Cohesion in a Time of Pandemic
by Chris Richardson
Since early 2020, the entire world has been confronted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses in every corner of Planet Earth have had to adjust their operational methods. The primary change for most global enterprises has been the advent of remote working for the majority - rather than the minority - of company employees. This phenomenon has known no cultural .....
The Post-Pandemic Business World: Practices and Disparities
by Chris Richardson
The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it an explosive growth in remote working around the world, from Beijing to Buenos Aires. Global business practice has had to change with the times. Yet rather than being temporary phenomena, the transformations that the epidemic brought with it would appear to be more permanent than could have ever been imagined. Since the .....
Brexit in a Time of Globalization and Pandemic
by Chris Richardson
The start of 2021 heralded the departure of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU), after half a century of membership. It was a process that was watched by the entire world, and one that even became defined by its own noun: Brexit. Of course, the UK is only one nation among the one hundred and ninety-five countries of today’s world. However .....
Digital Nomads: a Future Consequence of the Pandemic Era
by Chris Richardson
In the early months of the year, most articles and editorials regarding COVID-19 - whether they were written in New Delhi or New York - were working on the premise that the pandemic would essentially be vanquished by the end of 2020. During the summer months, observers pointed to China's apparently successful handling of the epidemic and assumed a similar ou .....
The World’s Most Unlikely Cultural Success Story
by Chris Richardson
The European Union (EU) recently announced that it would reopen its external borders to travelers from certain countries, based on their performance in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. The world has become familiar with this sort of unified message from the European Union. While not always easily reached, such collective decisions are one of the world’s mos .....
Decoding the Critical Challenges of a Virtual Global Workforce
by Chris Richardson
Globalization can be broadly defined as the worldwide commercial interaction of people, companies and governments. It has touched every corner of the planet, in what is seen by some as a relentless threat to traditional norms, values and - in many areas - jobs. Major economies have seen the resistance to globalization cause their entire political realm to sh .....
Business and Politics in a Social Media World
by Chris Richardson
As everyone knows, human communication today is generally dominated by social media channels. People all over the world have come to accept social media platforms as a way to keep in touch across distances that are great and small. Social media allows human relationships to develop between individuals who barely know each other, and even between two people w .....