Climate Change, Work, and New Words

 

#5 July 28:  Climate change is interrupting and changing evolution! In an article about the decreasing food supply, not just from the grain being blocked from Ukraine, but low yields worldwide from climate change, an agronomist in Italy said, “They say plants should adapt to climate changes, but we are talking about cultures that evolved slowly over thousands of years; they cannot adjust to a climate that keeps changing so quickly and so dramatically.” 

#6  July 29:  QWP = quark gulon plasma  OR a GREAT WWF’s word!  (used against me in a solo computer challenge) 7/24

#7 July 30:  The headline in Wednesday’s paper said that Allstate was going to have to renounce a tax break agreement because they are not generating the new jobs promised.  Since the pandemic, most of their new hires are either online or hybrid, neither of which qualify for the tax break.  In the same paper, it talked about how companies that hire exclusively for flex time are hiring twice the number of folks than companies that require in-person work.  Hybrid working fell somewhere in between.  Another study said that complete flex time was not as productive or collaborative, but that hybrid work is often more productive than all in-person.  Another bonus of complete flex time hiring is that companies get a more diverse workforce with folks who because of disabilities, finance, or distance couldn’t be hired in complete face-to-face settings.  This seems especially true in high tech, expensive areas such as San Francisco.  Conclusion:  the pandemic has changed how we view work and it is still evolving.  Most companies will probably adopt a hybrid model to attract talent when possible.  7/26

#8 July 31:  A new word has been coined:  Swiftonomics  It is the economic impact communities gain when the Taylor Swift concert comes to town.  It was estimated that concert-goers spend $1300+ on food, hotels, special clothes to wear, merch, etc.   7/28