When you have a front-row seat to a major event
We are witnessing something bigger than the coronavirus, we just don’t give it enough credit.
Do you know what that is? Here are a few perspectives to consider:
- Less congested roads,
- more time with family.
- Less time in poorly lit offices,
- more time in comfy home offices.
- Less capability of obtaining products from abroad,
- more opportunities for businesses in your area.
- Less time evaluating an employees demeanor,
- more time evaluating the outcome of their work.
- Less time spent practicing poor management styles,
- more time working on growing together.
- Less time thinking ME,
- more time thinking US.
Best of all, employers everywhere are learning a whole new level of trust in their workforce – something human resource professionals have been driving home for a long time – and through this are finding even more opportunities to continue to service and thrive in their industries.
It turns out – most people want to be a part of a solution, rather than do nothing.
It’s the beginning of a whole new way of doing business.
“Necessity is the mother of invention” – Plato
Only when forced to take a pause, does business suddenly start functioning in a manner that is wholeheartedly better for the planet and those that inhabit it.
By focusing on the health and well being of humans, we have the chance to alter businesses and the economy forever. We can see it in the hiring of staff for deep cleaning, delivery, customer guidance, information technology and so forth. These current and lasting changes to the standards of our work environment will/is growing a whole new workforce behind it.
Covid-19 is forcing us to think about how our “front-facing” or “close proximity” workforce is in the most danger, and often the least capable of financially bridging a time like now. So we are seeing employers step up to protect their staff. Let’s face it, if they don’t they could potentially be forced into closing their business entirely if an infection breaks out in their establishment.
What is most amazing is the impact on the environment. With needless travel and manufacturing forced to stop and pause, the air quality has made massive improvements – and let’s face it – that’s probably better for our lungs at a time we are fighting a disease that takes your breath away.
We shouldn’t have to have an epidemic to force these changes.
We know some technologies can assist in the decrease of greenhouse gas emissions – but it comes at choosing cheaper products made in countries that have a different opinion on what’s good for the environment and what is good for their pocketbook.
Well, right now, what’s good for their pocketbook could also be good for the environment, and possibly mankind.
With necessity as the mother of this invention, I firmly believe the best business practices yet to come. Innovation in a time like this can propel lasting changes that allow us to continue to do business more ethically.
The best is truly yet to come.