AmCham Singapore in the Media: DPM Heng Swee Keat at AmCham Balestier Series 2023​
Prime Minister's Office Singapore
AmCham Singapore in the Media: DPM Heng Swee Keat at AmCham Balestier Series 2023​
AmCham Singapore in the Media: DPM Heng Swee Keat at AmCham Balestier Series 2023​
Prime Minister's Office Singapore
AmCham Singapore in the Media: DPM Heng Swee Keat at AmCham Balestier Series 2023​
Mar
29
Events
CALENDAR
Slide 1
AmCham
News

The COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and immediately set off enormous disruptions across workforces worldwide, like hours cuts, furloughs and layoffs. Millions of on-site workers around the world shifted, overnight, to telecommuting. The instant worldwide transformation to ubiquitous work-from-home inevitably sparked novel logistical problems and sticky legal challenges.

Among the more complex is the singular phenomenon that came to be called “global covid nomads,” the small percentage — but enormous worldwide number — of employees that COVID-19 transformed into telecommuters who then slipped away to work from new homes in foreign countries.

Read the report here.