One of the pillars of agile ways of working is team collocation. Study after study shows that teams that work together in the same place report higher productivity and effectiveness and better decision making. So, what happens when a disruption such as coronavirus renders collocation inadvisable if not impossible? Can team members working in remote locations still be agile?
This snapshot presents insights from research completed in the US, the UK, Italy, and France from March 13 to March 16 and compares the new US results to those presented in last week’s snapshot, which came from a survey conducted before many major COVID-19-related events had occurred in the US, including the US government’s travel ban and the stoppage of major league sporting events.
In the report published in the run-up to World Children’s Day 2020, UNICEF calls for averting a lost generation as COVID-19 threatens to cause irreversible harm to children’s education, nutrition and wellbeing.
The note reviews policy options to mitigate the (formal) employment impact of COVID-19, many of which are being deployed by governments.
The Centre for Business Tendencies Studies of the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge of the National Research University Higher School of Economics presents an information review reflecting the trends in changes in the activity of distance selling in the regions of the country, formed on the basis of the results of the Q2 of 2020 in the shock events caused by COVID-19.
