Covid-19 has created structural changes in the workplace

SOME economists welcome sharp economic downturns because of the "cleansing effects of recessions". They often refer to the concept of "creative destruction", developed by the Austrian-born economist Joseph Schumpeter in the 1950s.

Schumpeter himself saw it as a "process of industrial mutation that continuously revolutionises the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one".

The current global pandemic has brought about plenty of economic destruction. Massive la…

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