An emotionally stretched, radically altered, and positively
demanding workforce is on the menu for many businesses in the
remainder of 2020.
Preparing for our own
re-entry, I can't help wondering whether businesses are as
ready to unlock the lockdown as the media would lead us to believe.
Amongst the leaders I have been talking to, there is a keen
understanding of the new challenges they face, and that the
decisions we make about "re-entry" need to be conscious,
unrushed and right for our own particular circumstances.
As the COVID-19
'R rate' has dropped, and the easing of the
lockdown in wider society is speeding up, it is worth considering
that the journey 'back' could be more dangerous than the
journey we have been on - it's illuminating that over 70% of
people who perish on Everest do so on the way back down. My
instinct is that the greatest economic and organisational risks to
business lie ahead, albeit that so too do the greatest
opportunities. If we
