Beyond the fear of being infected lies the greater fear of being unemployed, and while we wait to hear about the status of our jobs, we grapple with the effects of going several months with reduced income as we did over the past few months. We are progressively aware that the real impact of COVID-19 on our lives was not just something we could freeze into that lockdown period, because increasingly, the losses in income and jobs are translating into losses of homes, stability, security, relationships, and general status.
It is not just the self-employed, the gig-workers, and the freelancers being affected. Even those with seemingly stable jobs carry some degree of anxiety because somewhere in their respective value chain, the pandemic would have caused a disruption whose consequences are slowing trickling into their everyday reality. The burning platform as we used to say is, what is the HR office going to do to support colleagues in their quest to deliver on the corporate mandate they are charged with?
