#41 Daily Financial News Round Up - Dec 11,2021
What news caught my attention?
Pandemic has forced companies to rethink what the form of work structure is. The flexibility feature of the work-from-home option has expanded the choice set of working women. Will this expansion of career choices decrease the gender wage gap?
It is challenging to measure innovation as it is an abstract concept. What is innovation? While some see innovation as industry-disrupting, others see anything new as innovation. Drucker Institute, which ranks companies, views innovation as any endeavour that creates wealth-producing capacity. With this definition, novelty is not a feature rather a side effect of innovation.
Increased crime rate keeps uber drivers off the road adding to the shortage of workers.
My Takeaways:
The reflect and pause feature of the pandemic is helping reshape the inequity and equality conversations around women. Good news!
What is the reason for increased crime during the pandemic? Is it the usage of masks that provides a facade of anonymity? Or is it the social unrest caused by ubiquitous discussions of injustice?