COVID-19 is reshaping the way we work and earn, says the Financial Times' Patti Waldmeir.
The role of security guard is morphing into temperature checker. And big cities are putting people in new jobs such as “social distancing ambassador”.As we celebrate rites of passage in a time of pandemic — marrying, dying, graduating, giving birth, dating and celebrating our 40th or 65th or 100th birthdays online — there are new job descriptions for those who help us do those things differently.
They can do home delivery or teach Zoom classes on making bacon-wrapped deep-fried olives at home. But it’s hard to see people queueing up the same way they do for the real thing. People wear masks as they walk down Oxford Street, as the number of coronavirus disease cases grow around the world, in London, Britain March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Ms McIlwee, who is one of the tracers, has tracked the movements of 75 patients so far: “Some days have been tougher than others, we just try to take one day at a time and think about the good we are doing,” she says.
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