Apr 14, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown has exposed weaknesses in many organisations’ workforce management practices. While the unique circumstances forced companies to quickly embrace remote working, many were completely unprepared to manage users in their...
Apr 14, 2020
As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, Americans say the greatest international threat to the well-being of their country is the spread of infectious diseases. According to a new Pew Research Centre report, nearly all US adults (98%) say this is at least a minor...
Apr 14, 2020
The African Energy Chamber has welcomed the deal struck by OPEC and OPEC+ Member countries on a deal to cut production and maintain market stability. On Easter Sunday (12 April 2020), OPEC and OPEC+ member countries decided to cut oil production by 9,7-million barrels...
Apr 9, 2020
One of the fundamental ideas of cosmology is that everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances. A new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton is challenging that basic notion. Astronomers using...
Apr 9, 2020
What will the world’s biodiversity look like in the future? According to a new study the disruption of biodiversity from climate change on land and in the oceans will be abrupt and could be much sooner than we had expected, potentially affecting tens of...
Apr 9, 2020
With South Africa entering into its third week of the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, consumer spending has reflected several about-turns. Our data, comprising of point of sale (POS) and transactions from ATM withdrawals – both recorded by BankservAfrica –...
