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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
james_s:
--- Quote from: coppice on July 17, 2020, 06:01:42 pm ---It extremely relevant to an electronics forum, as I am starting to hear from more and more hardware and software engineers who are now searching for a job in a terrible market. The past one or two weeks seems to have been the crunch point where many people have moved from working at home or furloughed, to laid off.
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I would try to stay optimistic. It is a temporary situation, even though we cannot really see the light at the end of the tunnel yet. Lingering effects will likely drag on for years, perhaps a decade or more but prosperity will gradually return. We made it through the two dot-com busts, the housing/banking crisis and other smaller downturns. There will be a lot of people looking for jobs, but there are also likely to be a lot of unemployed people founding new companies as things start to improve. Opportunities will rise from the rubble.
bd139:
Software (business/financial) market is fine here in UK. In fact we can't get anyone and have had to hire in a shit load of contractors. :--
PlainName:
--- Quote --- even under catastrophic conditions covid would wipe out "only" around 1% of the population
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Just a practice run to fine-tune things.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: james_s on July 17, 2020, 08:35:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 17, 2020, 05:58:27 pm ---
--- Quote ---Doesn't population growth factor into it? There is only so much land...
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Yeah, what we need is something like a global pandemic to thin them out a bit.
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The thing is, even under catastrophic conditions covid would wipe out "only" around 1% of the population. That's a staggering number of lives on an individual level, but a 1% reduction is not exactly going to alleviate overpopulation.
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I think people are more worried about the long term health effects, more than deaths now.
The fertility rate is below the replacement rate in many western countries and it will become that way in many developing countries, in the near future, so we're in for more of a population crash, than overpopulation.
coppice:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 17, 2020, 09:16:00 pm ---Software (business/financial) market is fine here in UK. In fact we can't get anyone and have had to hire in a shit load of contractors. :--
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Have you considered paying them well? Recruitment never seems to be a problem when the price is right, as attested by your ability to find contractors. :)
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