We Can Do Better: Opportunities to Adopt a New Economic Paradigm in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic
2020; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/23739770.2020.1816393
ISSN2373-9770
AutoresRachel Gould, M. Kate Gallagher,
Tópico(s)COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Jin Wu, Allison McCann, Josh Katz, and Elian Peltier, “87,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Outbreak,” The New York Times, May 28, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html.2 Mahlon Apgar, IV, “The Alternative Workplace: Changing where and how people work,” Harvard Business Review, May–June 1998, https://hbr.org/1998/05/the-alternative-workplace-changing-where-and-how-people-work.3 Brodie Boland, Aaron De Smet, Rob Palter, and Aditya Sanghvi, “Reimagining the Office and Work Life after Covid-19,” McKinsey and Company, June 8, 2020.4 The Israel Society for Ecology and Environmental Studies (ISEES), “The Implementation of Remote Work Policy in Israel—Expert's Opinion” [Hebrew], (2020).5 Ibid.6 Charlie Warzel, “You Are Not Working from Home,” The New York Times, May 26, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/work-from-home.html; Maayan Manela, “WFH, Webinars, and Zoom Meetings: What coronavirus imposed workplace transitions are here to stay?” Calcalist, May 24, 2020, https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3826451,00.html.7 “Work and Rest Hours Law–1951,” https://www.nevo.co.il/law_html/law01/P225_001.htm.8 ISEES, op. cit.9 Ibid; Yael Mor, “Work From Home, Save Money and Protect the Environment,” The Jerusalem Post, February 3, 2020, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/work-from-home-save-money-and-protect-the-environment-616328.10 Amriam Barkat, “Working From Home: Curse Or Cure?” Globes, May 11, 2020, https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-remote-working-curse-or-cure-1001328111.11 Data available from the Dryad Digital Repository, https://doi.org/10.7280/D13H4X.12 All analyses were completed using the statistical package R: R Core Team (2019), R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, https://www.R-project.org/.13 2.95 ± 0.13 children, mean ± standard error.14 69.62 ± 4.4.15 Includes both individual drivers and those participating in carpools.16 Includes both individuals riding public buses and those using shuttle services provided by their employer.17 (F1,133 = 0.52, P = 0.5). We tested whether the number of children in the home influenced respondents’ perceived productivity during the Covid-19 shutdown using a linear model ANOVA.18 Clare Cain Miller, “Could the Pandemic Wind Up Fixing What's Broken About Work in America?” The New York Times, April 10, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/upshot/coronavirus-future-work-america.html.19 Matt Burr and Becca Endicott, “Coronavirus will permanently change how we work,” The Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-will-permanently-change-how-we-work-11584380290.20 Cain Miller, op. cit.21 John M. Zelenski, Steven A. 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Evidence from a Chinese Experiment,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXXX:1 (2015), 165–218.25 Hanna Ellis-Petersen, Rebecca Ratcliffe, Sam Cowie, Joe Parkin Daniels, and Lily Kuo, “‘It's Positively Alpine!’: Disbelief in Big Cities as Air Pollution Falls,” The Guardian, April 11, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/11/positively-alpine-disbelief-air-pollution-falls-lockdown-coronavirus.26 Richard Deverell, “Earth Day 2020 Could Mark the Year We Stop Taking the Planet for Granted,” The Guardian, April 22, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/22/earth-day-2020-could-mark-the-year-we-stop-taking-the-planet-for-granted-aoe.27 Alon Tal, “Unkept Promises: Israel's Implementation of Its International Climate Change Commitments,” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, XIV:1 (2020).28 Moira Fagan and Christine Huang, “A Look at How People Around the World View Climate Change,” Pew Research Center, April 18, 2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/18/a-look-at-how-people-around-the-world-view-climate-change/.29 Rachel Gould, unpublished data; Tal, op. cit., 24.30 Tal, op. cit. Tammy Gannot Rosenstreich, “Israel's Appalling Inaction on Climate Change,” The Times of Israel, December 25, 2019, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-appalling-inaction-on-climate-change/.31 Gil Proaktor, Ronnie Cohen, Ayelet Rosen, Elah Weinstein, and Neta Alloul, “Israel National Plan for Implementation of the Paris Agreement,” The Ministry for Environmental Protection, (Jerusalem, 2016).32 Haim Bleikh, “Back and Forth Commuting for Work in Israel,” Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, (Jerusalem, 2018).33 Maria Cramer and Mihir Zaveri, “What if You Don't Want to Go Back to the Office?” The New York Times, May 5, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/business/pandemic-work-from-home-coronavirus.html; Barkat, op. cit.34 ISEES, op. cit.35 “The Future is Flexible: The Importance of Flexibility in the Modern Workplace,” WERK, https://werk.co/research.36 “Most Israeli Workers are Unhappy with Their Work-Life Balance, Survey Finds,” The Times of Israel, December 16, 2019, https://www.timesofisrael.com/most-israeli-workers-unhappy-with-work-life-balance-survey/.37 Marko Virkebau, Aaro Hazak, and Kadri Männasoo, “More Flexibility, Better Results? Issues in R&D Work Efficiency,” TTU Economic Research Series (2017); Nicholas Bloom, “To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home,” Harvard Business Review, January–February 2014, https://hbr.org/2014/01/to-raise-productivity-let-more-employees-work-from-home; Clive Thompson, “What if Working From Home Goes On … Forever?” The New York Times Magazine, June 14, 2020, p. 29–35.38 Manela, op. cit.39 Esin Sadikoglu and Cemal Zehir, “Investigating the Effects of Innovation and Employee Performance on the Relationship Between Total Quality Management Practices and Firm Performance: An Empirical Study of Turkish Firms,” International Journal of Production Economics, CXXVII:1 (2010), 13–26.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRachel GouldRachel Gould is a PhD candidate in public policy at Tel Aviv University and holds an MA in environmental studies from Haifa University. She focuses on the influence of climate change on various aspects of our lives today and into the future.M. Kate GallagherM. Kate Gallagher recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship through the Zuckerman STEM Leadership program at the Botanical Garden at Tel Aviv University. She holds a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of California, Irvine, and an MS in plant science and conservation from Northwestern University. Her research addresses questions about the mechanisms governing how global climate change affects species interactions. This essay won second place in the 2020 ICFR/Konrad Adenauer Stiftung-Israel essay contest on “Covid-19: Exploration of Potential Systemic Changes to the Global Order.”
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