The last couple of weeks have been bizarre, to say the least. The Guardian details how COVID-19, the coronavirus that has escalated to a full-on pandemic, has changed and will continually change, the world as we know it. It has upended everything from mass transport to business practices all over the world, as more and more people are being asked to just stay home. This has resulted in a massive shift regarding how we work, as work from home and remote working arrangements are slowly becomi...

About 20 years ago, there was a pretty standard process for hiring new employees. A job seeker would usually physically visit a place of business, ask for an application, then either fill it in out there or take it home and return it with a resume, if they had one.  If the hiring manager liked what they saw, an interview was scheduled and one was usually hired based on whether their skill set and personality matched the expectation of the hiring manager. When it came to testing candidate...

As millions of people fear losing their jobs, remote work gains popularity. Even companies that were reluctant to adopt remote work strategy prior to coronavirus outbreak, had no other option but to shift to work from home arrangements. Going forward, it is expected that the number of all-remote companies will grow exponentially as many businesses and employees have realized the benefits of remote work. Even before coronavirus pandemic, investors were already asking tech startup founders...

Amid coronavirus outbreak, several countries have declared a state of emergency which resulted in closed restaurants, cafes, shops, hotels and the list goes on. In some cases, only the supermarkets and pharmacies could stay open. In Italy and France, people are not allowed to leave their homes unless they have a valid reason like buying food, medicines or visiting a doctor. Coronavirus outbreak has an extremely negative effect on the global economy and especially in those countries and c...

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. Even more conservative organizations that would never consider remote work before have been forced to do so. Many countries have imposed travel bans and an unprecedented country-wide quarantine has been announced in Italy, Spain and Bulgaria. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stoc...