Economy

What started as an activity to pass time creatively during the lockdown were turned into a viable business by these indomitable women.

Hybridization has now moved up a notch. It is not just hybridization of jobs; it is also hybridization of how work gets done.

This is the time for the government to identify early stage start-ups practising sustainable tourism and help them scale up and create best practices to be replicated.

As a B-School Dean mentioned in a webinar, be ready to answer the question, “What did you do during 2020 that you would not have done any time else?”

Fruits and vegetables do not fall under the list of items procured by the government at minimum support price. And efforts to bring farmer and buyer together have had limited success.

As the future of work changes, we will see the future of meetings change dramatically too. The Zoom mania will die down as people start using tools that measure their productivity.

Delhi has set up a 12-member Committee on Economic Revival of the City, under technocrat Jasmine Shah, and comprised of representatives from the government, municipal corporations and industry.

The old jobs are out. The only option left to earn some income is to try something different. But how is that panning out in Pune?

The dire need to find alternative sources of income is not limited to just domestic and construction workers. Every category of labour has been hit hard.

COVID-19, job losses, salary cuts and no bonus have led to muted festival shopping. Sales staff seem confident though that things will look up as Diwali nears.

The hardest hit by COVID-19 were small contractors, employing five-six workers, mostly migrants, who fled the capital during March-May and are now hesitant to return.

More and more people who lost their jobs to the pandemic are making new beginnings. Earnings may be less initially, but the road ahead promises flexibility and independence.