How has work changed in the post-pandemic world?

Three years after the COVID pandemic shut down the world’s economic system, have relations between employees and employers shifted?

Economists name it “pandemic epiphanies”.

Throughout the first yr of the COVID-19 lockdowns, individuals began questioning their life decisions. Thousands and thousands give up their jobs and pivoted to new fields.

When the economic system began to open up in late 2021, firms in the US needed to pay greater than pre-COVID salaries to recruit employees. American employees gained bargaining energy in coping with their firms.

However makes an attempt to organise into unions are nonetheless met with ferocity by the largest companies.

Host Steve Clemons discusses the way forward for work with journalist Liz Hoffman, ZipRecruiter chief economist Julia Pollak and Certainly economist Nick Bunker.