Today’s Sources

• Parag Khanna and Kailash Prasad, “How Coronavirus Could Make People Move,”
• “ The Importance of Effective Communication While Working from Home ” Platform Magazine
• World Economic Forum, “ Shutdown of Border Leaves Migrants in Limbo ”

 

-World Economic Forum, “ Shutdown of Border Leaves Migrants in Limbo ”

• Officials are going to turn away most migrants from the southern border even if they are escaping violence
• Trump wants to tighten the border control so the virus doesn’t spread
• 7 months waiting for asylum of new York
• Where they live you get extorted, attacked in your own house, and death threats
• Had to hide their identity

Centro Scalabrini a shelter for asylum member

• People in the shelter
• Chad World the acting secretary of Homeland Security says they are doing what’s best for the health of the migrants and the workers near the border

Quote – “ I’m 68 I shouldn’t even be down here I should be up in room for 2 months but my heart doesn’t let me do that ” 3:09

• This quote came up in the interview with Pat Murphy who is Casa Del Migrant the main reason why I like this quote because it shows the difference between people who work and help migrants to actually receive help and politicians whose superficial and mundane personas show they barley care.
• Food For Thought – If politicians worked hands on and on site of the border, how would their actions and personas change?

 

-“ The Importance of Effective Communication While Working from Home ” Platform Magazine

• The flexibility that comes from working from home
  • Time
  • More sleep
  • Food anytime
  • Parents can stay with their kids
• While working from home has upsides downsides can be that communication in the workspace is altered or hindered because of the lack of face to face contact and experience.
• Another issue arises which is mixing home life and work life
  • A lot of people can’t be full time parents, worker, student, and teacher at the same time they describe it in the article
• Joseph Rix a decision science analyst at USAA has 7 years’ work from home experience he gave some tips and thoughts
  • You have to make your own dedicated work space
  • Have a set schedule
  • Since its pandemic times it’s going to be hard staying home with family members and kids in the house
• Ella Barton who is an events coordinator for the US Chamber of Commerce says getting responses between coworkers is harder because they are not near you
  • Using email, texting, and calling is convenient where you can do it anytime but the issues arise from the response times and connection to internet.

Quote ” Without face-to-face contact, remote workers must be intentional about communicating with co-workers, bosses, employees and others.” This quote caught my eye cause the word intentional was used meaning that before quarantine communication in the workspace was limited and avoided. This can help companies determine the best course of actions if sales and advertising go up because communication rises between employees then the company might permanently adopt the work from style

Food For Thought – Would a hybrid work from home and in person workspace be beneficial to a company? Think about if sales was face to face but the advertising team was work from home?

 

-Parag Khanna and Kailash Prasad, “How Coronavirus Could Make People Move,”

• The question arises from how the corona virus changing “how we live” to “where we live?”
• People are predicting people will move out of crowded city areas and into more spacious land where the virus is less likely to spread
• Migration has stopped
  • Flights being canceled
  • Executive orders
• Talks about how moving out US and in a country with a more universal and better healthcare might appeal to people moving now that the virus opened our eyes to what life may be like for a while

 

 

We all have experienced our lives slowly shift from the beginning of the year to now. Some might love it like my introvert sister who stays home all day watching anime and school work. On the other hand there people like me who needs to go outside for that mental break and fresh air. But there is up and downs to the situation we are living in saving time from not traveling, less expenses on food and shopping since stores and restaurants were closed. With our hectic New York lifestyle we actually had time to be with family. Some disadvantages that raised from being in quarantine and the work from home lifestyle is that you lose that in person experience and bonding. That social aspect of doing a presentation in front of people or working and meeting with students outside of your class time we  lost that experience that going to college was supposed to bring. My orientation in my home is setup with my work space in room with my laptop and pc. Every day is pretty similar just some days I have zoom classes some days I don’t, after I would go workout, then come home to my workstation and do homework and study for the remainder of my day. Some patterns and skills like email checking, journal writing, and time management raised form school at home because you have no body to push yourself but you. Being limited to only digital interactions a lot of boredom occurred peoples responsibilities shifted. More people either became more religious or started to go have fun more with the more time quarantine gave us. Keeping a constant interaction with you friend’s like through snapchat or Instagram is a good way to stay connected. With co-workers using their numbers instead of email works better in my opinion. With classmates a group chat is very useful because usually a question arises and instead of typing it individually to each other you can shoot a text to everyone at the same time.

 

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