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WFH ... WTF ... ????: Working-from-home, employer reaction and pandemic-inspired industrial changes
Brendan Shaw "If after 15 months, you have only a 'suspicion' about what your people are up to and find it 'hard to know' who are your...
Brendan Shaw
Aug 7, 20248 min read
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Back to the Future? Global Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Rumble On
Brendan Shaw Article "Back to the Future? Global Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Rumble On" published in PharmaBoardroom on 18 July 2023 can...
Brendan Shaw
Jul 18, 20231 min read
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As easy as riding a bike?: Work-life balance in the 21st century
Brendan Shaw "What about me? It isn't fair I've had enough, now I want my share Can't you see, I wanna live But you just take more than...
Brendan Shaw
Jun 18, 20235 min read
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Unconscious uncoupling?: Three years on Covid-19 is no longer a global emergency
Brendan Shaw " I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern." - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,...
Brendan Shaw
May 7, 20235 min read
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Exonerated!: Rats not to blame for the 14th century Black Death
Brendan Shaw “ .. the Porters who opened the infected Bales of Goods in the Lazaretto's [sic] of Marseilles, died upon the first...
Brendan Shaw
Feb 1, 20237 min read
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Lessons learned: finance and resilience in post-COVID health systems
Brendan Shaw “If you staff at maximum capacity, well, then you have to price and cost for maximum capacity at all times. But then do you...
Brendan Shaw
Jul 24, 20226 min read
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Decoupling, deglobalisation and the price of lettuce: be careful what you wish for
Brendan Shaw “The failures of globalisation are not inevitable” - Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents Revisited,...
Brendan Shaw
Jun 19, 20225 min read
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Workers of the world resign!: What if post-pandemic staff refuse to return to the office?
Brendan Shaw "Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere (Every person born...
Brendan Shaw
Aug 19, 20218 min read
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Influenza pandemics then and now - the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic
As the First World War was grinding to its end in 1918, reports started to emerge of an infectious disease in the trenches, army barracks...
Brendan Shaw
Jan 16, 20184 min read
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