Aug 18, 2020
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Topic 1: - What's the B2B plan for sales after the pandemic?
Here are a few different perspectives. We discuss these as well as recovery timing. After all, increased sales will start at some point: You need a plan!
Post-COVID-19 strategy planning has begun at 43% of companies, while 38% of CIOs said their organizations continue to grapple with the effects of the pandemic, and plan to turn to recovery soon.
How CIO’s view things:
https://www.ciodive.com/news/cio-leadership-coronavirus-gartner/583282/
Topic 2: - What do the moves of government regulators
mean?
AG’s at the top:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/technology/facebook-online-hate.html
Or what it will mean for smaller companies? (Registration fees!)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MSPRegulationAndLegislation
Facebook's July 2020 Civil Rights Audit:
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Civil-Rights-Audit-Final-Report.pdf
Topic 3: - Life after the pandemic - Changes in
workers?
This is a really good practical exercise in the debate around working from home vs. in the office. Hybrid work leads to hybrid legal definitions - and no one is prepared to address those different status types in their current model.
Obviously the question in California is far from finished, but this is a really good step forward. The gig economy is a great idea, but companies have twisted the concept to abuse workers rather than create flexibility and it’s good to see some sanity introduced to the model.
https://thenextweb.com/shift/2020/08/11/judge-rules-uber-lyft-drivers-employees-far-from-the-end/
Note: While we were recording, the judge ruled against the extension we discuss.
:-)