A new global business survey conducted through the Arizona State University College of Health Solutions and the World Economic Forum (WEF), with the Rockefeller Foundation, shows that fewer than 20% of employers report evaluating their staff to detect COVID-19, and 35% have permanently reduced their workforce.
The survey, which ended across 1,125 employers in 29 countries, most over a six-week period from September to October, found that many corporations with on-site workers in the office are taking steps to reduce the threat of spread of the virus. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of those corporations say they want masks for their workers and almost 80% offer masks and hand sanitist.
When the ASU and WEF announced the survey in mid-July, international authorities amounted to 13. 2 million and deaths amounted to 575,000. Since then, instances have quadrupled to 53. 7 million and are expanding rapidly. The deaths surpassed the 1. 3 million mark, facing complex and demanding situations and complicated decisions on how to ensure the protection of workers and consumers while still being open to business.
“How to advance the economy while keeping others in the minds of all business leaders as they continue to browse the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Mara Aspinall, professor of practice at the Faculty of Health Solutions. “The effects of the survey give us a clearer picture of the many difficult decisions employers face in trying to reduce the spread of the disease, and why more is needed to expand access to immediate control effects. “
The effects of the first phase of the survey “COVID-19 Workplace Commons – Keeping Workers Well” will now be taken into account in a full report, “Facing Uncertainty: The Challenges of COVID-19 in the Workplace. ” The report provides the findings from employers around the world on their technique for testing, touch search, facility security, pandemic response, monetary effect, and pandemic preparedness.
“We have created a network for leaders to express a percentage of their demanding situations and practices,” said Genya Dana, director of health care transformation at the World Economic Forum. “We, these resources, will help world leaders make informed decisions as the pandemic continues to evolve. “
One of the main demanding situations of COVID-19? At least 40% of other people inflamed with the virus have no symptoms and silent propagators are possible. Without explanation of why they believe they are inflamed, asymptomatic patients continue their daily activities in network paints and in the office and can transmit the virus to others. However, few employers check their painters when they get to paint because they consider checks too expensive (28%), too confusing to put into effect (22%) or are involved in the accuracy of the controls. (18%).
Globally, the majority (65%) of the corporations surveyed were small businesses with 25 or fewer employees, of which nearly 80% had fewer than a hundred employees. With the United States accounting for more than a fifth of the world’s instances and more than one-sixth of total deaths from the virus, the fact that 62. 5% of respondents were U. S. corporations paints a critical picture of the landscape of demanding situations facing businesses in the country.
“As companies continue to reopen and workers return to the workplace, once we are stuck again with a sharp increase in the virus with instances of COVID-19 reaching a record,” Dr Jonathan D said. Quick, Executive Director of Pandemic Response, Preparedness and Prevention, Health Initiative, with the Rockefeller Foundation. “We will have to unite and do everything in our power to keep the economy open and protect others. “
Additional effects of the survey include:
Only 36% of corporations had crisis or emergency reaction plans prior to COVID-19, and of these, only 39% had particular plans for epidemics or pandemics; 47% said their plan was useful for the pandemic.
26% of respondents report an increase in monthly operating prices of 26% or more (excluding check rates).
In particular, knowledge revealed that there were few significant differences between U. S. and non-U. S. corporations, for tactile research, where U. S. corporations do much less compared to other regions (37% for the US) and the United States. But it’s not the first time Compared to 54% for outside the U. S. ).
43% of all corporations perform some form of touch search, 58% of them make it mandatory and 17% require pointing out disclaimers.
“By sharing the effects of our survey, we are enabling broad access to data and genuine democratization of pandemic wisdom,” said Nate Wade, co-project manager and senior director of strategic projects at ASU’s College of Health Solutions.
A COVID-19 Workplace Commons interactive knowledge panel provides knowledge for conducting surveys.
In addition to COVID-19 Workplace Commons, ASU offers the following resources:
Employer Case Studies: Highlight approaches to the protection and business continuity of companies around the world.
TestingCommons. com: A complete and interactive database of COVID-19 legal checks around the world, up-to-date and searchable using check type, technology, regulatory prestige and many other parameters.
Regain Control of COVID-19 Webinar Series: Leading Thought Leaders Discuss Most Productive Practices in Innovation, Strategy, and Using Diagnostics and Testing in Times of Doubt.
Testing Technology Trends (blog T3): factual data on COVID-19 technologies to deal with demanding situations and decision making.
ASU and WEF will launch two more stages of their COVID-19 Workplace Commons – Keeping Workers Well survey in 2021 Employers of all types, sizes and geographic locations are invited to worry and register to participate in the next asUcovidcommons survey. Com. The effects will be updated and published on the website.
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Many historians have said that this country is about the exploitation of indigenous peoples and the Earth.
His land has been colonized for centuries. Resources such as water, minerals and were once honest and abundant, but are now contaminated and scarce.
This tale is an explanation of why Native Americans have been constant allies in environmental movements.
The Arizona State University Humanities Project organized an occasion on November 17 called “Environmental Justice: Indigenous Communities” to explore the intersection of justice for Earth, justice for indigenous peoples, and how to repair the wounds of the past.
“If nothing else, the racial justice crisis of the summer of 2020 forced verbal exchange over systemic racism to designate ‘white supremacy’ as the proverbial unlisted monster in the room,” Neal A said. Lester, English tevery oneer and director of Humanities Project. The fact that many others read about racial justice in its countless manifestations and permutations is precisely why this verbal exchange over Aboriginal communities and lands is imperative and beneficial. Our preference is that coming in combination for this verbal exchange will lead us all to an action, big or small, to make us bigger and make us think about our quotes between us and the stolen land on which those Americas have created themselves. “
The panel of the occasion featured Alycia de Mesa, senior sustainability researcher at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation; Melissa K. Nelson, professor of indigenous sustainability at the ASU School of Sustainability; Nicole Horseherder, executive director of Tó Nizhóní Iní, a base organization focused on the preservation and coverage of the environment; Vanessa Nosie, hired in the Department of Historical Preservation and Archaeology of the Apache Tribe of San Carlos as Director of the NAGPRA Project and Archaeological Assistant; and her daughter, Naelyn Pike, a world-famous leader and activist for indigenous rights and the environment. Manuel Pino, professor of sociology and coordinator of Native American studies at Scottsdale Community College, hosted the evening.
Together, the organization tested the roots of environmental racism, colonialism, corporate mining and its effects on Aboriginal lands, water diversion to satisfy the desires of major cities, climate change, demonstrating empathy for Native American tribes, and how to be a best friend of indigenous peoples. . .
Panellists in Project Humanities’ November 17 discussion on environmentalism and Aboriginal communities come with sustainability instructor and PhD student Alycia de Mesa (top row from left to right); San Carlos Apache curator Vanessa Nosie and her daughter, activist Naelyn Pike; Melissa Nelson, ASU Aboriginal Sustainability Teacher; (bottom row, from left) panel moderator and Professor Manuel Pino of Scottsdale Community College; and Nicole Horseherder, Navajo environmentalist.
The organization spent the first part of the program defining and tracking the roots of surrounding racism. Pino, from Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, said he grew up next to a uranium mine that contaminated the surrounding area and claimed the lives of a handful of people close to him. Pino added that those same mines were deserted decades ago and have never been rescued or cleaned.
“All these corporations have surrendered and left our indigenous lands contaminated,” Pino said. “This has had effects only on the environment, but also on human health. “
Nelson said the roots of environmental racism go back more than 500 years to explorer Christopher Columbus. She quoted the e-book of the Native American philosopher Jack D. Forbes “Colon and the other cannibals” as text.
“He (Forbes) told how, when Columbus came here, he brought this spirit of conquest and this spirit of colonialism. And, of course, he pushed through the Vatican and the doctrine of the Pope’s discovery,” said Nelson, a writer. indigenous education editor and activist. Basically it says that those indigenous lands and the millions of other people who are here are quite invisible because they are not Christians and do not look kindly at the landArray . . . so it’s going a long way and it’s got a lot of ‘faces’.
Horseherder, a Black Mesa diné in northeastern Arizona, years of coal mining had decimated their land and contaminated their water.
“In all the years I’ve been there, there were no sources. And throughout Black Mesa, we don’t have rivers or springs, and we had springs all over set,” Horseherder said. “The springs near my space had also disappeared. And that’s where my studies began. “
Horseherder added that navajo’s coal-fired power plant near the Arizona-Utah border closed a year ago and is a primary victory, but paintings continue.
“One of the things we want to make sure now is that the recovery will be done under the federal government,” Horseherder said. “Like other Aboriginal people, we want to remain vigilant and (make sure) meet what we want so that others can return to live in those lands as they did before.
Nosie said environmental racism is much more than in Aboriginal lands; equivalent to cultural destruction and genocide.
“Our environment is the key to our identity and who we are as Aboriginal peoples,” said Nosie, who is a network organizer for her tribe. “Our cultural res come from Earth to drive a giant component of our ins. So when you communicate about the surrounding racism, you are communicating about the cultural destruction and genocide of our people. “
De Mesa, a fourth-generation Arizonan whose legacy is an aggregate of Mexicans, Western Apaches, Native Mexicans of Durango, Japanese and British/Germans, said it was the duty of each and every non-native to be informed about the history of those lands. and an ally . . .
“We want to see what our environment is, especially if you live in a big city,” De Mesa said. Where does our water come from?What are the backs that break so you can enjoy Wi?-Fi, electric power or anything else? We want to perceive this historically, and we want to perceive what is happening in the present . . . investigate, ask questions, read. Clearly, empathy is a component of that.
Pike said that acting by putting pressure on political leaders is not only effective, but is a right of each and every citizen.
“Make your voice heard because we are the people, we choose them to constitute us so that your voice has to be heard,” said Pike, who co-directs (along with his grandfather Wendsler Nosie Sr. and his mom Vanessa Nosie) the nonprofit Apache Stronghold, which is struggling to avoid a mining assignment that would desecrate Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site near the Indian reserve. “Ask the question, “Who am I?”You’ll find a link not only with you and your employees, but it will also help you link to what we’re looking to do. “
Pino said that getting businesses and politicians to avoid the desecration of indigenous lands has been a lifetime war for himself and others, is something Pino said does not see come true in his life, but does not prevent regardless of anything.
“I came out when I was young. Now I am an old man, ”said Pino. “And we are still fighting. “
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