Financial Mail: A Call for Change by WE's Sarah Gooding

A clarion call for change by WE's Sarah Gooding

Sarah Gooding is Managing Director of WE Communications, South Africa

Financial Mail, Sarah Gooding, 17 September 2020

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It’s tempting to want to focus on the immediate circumstances during an almost overwhelming global crisis, but this is the time to prepare wisely for the medium- and long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

As economies restart, workplaces around the world have been acclimatising to the “new normal”. And despite many unknowns about the future, a handful of universal trends will emerge to define a way forward.

These trends include:

• The search for positive change
• Purpose drives focus
• Change is a constant
• There’s no choice but to evolve