Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Global as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Global: Mandatory masks
Both Germany and Austria have begun to clamp down on the wearing of cloth/fabric masks, masks with valves and also scarves …
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Global: Legal flimflam
It has long been the practice in many jurisdictions for law firms in the sarcophaga nodosa genus to obtain business by so called “ambulance chasing” or “claim farming” …
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Global: Inflationary signs
FedEE is watching out for tell-tale signs of rising price inflation …
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Global: Will vaccines prove effective against new strains?
There are deep concerns amongst researchers evaluating the latest E484K strains of the coronavirus that have emerged in South Africa and Brazil that current vaccines will at least be rendered less effective for some people …
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Global: Inflation
We have long been warning of a coming sharp rise in global price inflation, in spite of the economic predictions by the IMF, EU and others that it would remain low for at least the next three years …
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Global: Useful research for HR to note
Two recent articles in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition have potentially useful implications for HR practice …
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Global: Why HR means business
It is easy to perceive HR as a narrow, largely administrative function – with the odd foray into talent management to remind the CEO that it can be “strategic” …
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Global: Corporate state
The Danish Saxo bank has once more issued its “outrageous predictions” …
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Global: Spanish language
According to the yearbook of the Instituto Cervantes, the number of people speaking Spanish as a native language in the world has grown over the last decade by 30% to 585 million, or 7 …
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Global: Land border controls
As the pandemic continues to surge, countries struggle to control their land borders with neighbouring states …
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Global: Are things getting better?
With approaching 70 million official cases Worldwide and 1 …
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Global: Measuring the cost in jobs
Because of widespread state support to maintain jobs, the gerrymandering of unemployment definitions, the size of the grey economy in many countries, and the slowness of state statistical agencies to reveal the latest employment statistics, we are still not in a position to know for some time the true impact of the pandemic upon jobs …
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Global: Work vs family life
Not only has work become increasingly casualised and part-time, but workers’ home lives have transformed too in recent years …
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Global: Effectiveness of sanitisation
Research carried out by Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA has found that samples repeatedly taken from shop door handles and bank machines were positive for COVID-19 just 8% of the time, but that the concentrations of the virus in all cases was low …
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Global: Daylight saving time
Every year, many people around the globe adjust their clocks forward in Spring and back again in Autumn …
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