Has Covid converted LinkedIn to a distress helpline?
From a smart boardroom or a business centre, the professional networking platform is becoming a park bench or a coffee shop, loaded with oodles of empathy, explains the Managing Director of Inexgro Brand Advisory
Shivaji Dasgupta
In simpler times, I used to distinguish between LinkedIn and Facebook on emotional quotient â the former was a smartly rational forum while the latter patently personal. But in recent complex times, courtesy the socio-economic bloodbath caused by the coronavirus, LinkedIn is developing newer hues and becoming a distress helpline.
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April 16, 2021
US retailers have long been competing with one another for workers in a high-turnover industry. What’s new is that the gig economy steering more into delivery is joining the competition for labor, and increasingly so over the course of the pandemic. Consider DoorDash, the food delivery company. Data from ZipRecruiter shows that the number of job postings for DoorDash in March 2021 was 8,550% higher than in March 2020.
The scramble for labor has been testing even the largest retail chains, which are responding with better pay and schedules. In February, Costco announced increasing its minimum wage to $16 an hour, pulling ahead of rivals like Amazon, Target, and Best Buy. And Walmart announced on April 14 that it will convert thousands of its part-time workers into full-time employees, a move that will give workers more consistent hours, while also giving Walmart more stability in staffing as its pickup and delivery business explodes.