Conscious Consumerism: A Luxurious Failure

In 1854, the concept of protecting the environment was first suggested and became popular when the world entered the era of industrialization. As consumers place such awareness into the context of economic markets, the appeal of purchasing environmentally…

WP 2: Has the Great Resignation permanently changed the employee-employer relationship?

With the induction of the Covid-19 pandemic all aspects of daily life have been affected. Those in school, jobs, and health care were forced to immediately reevaluate their…

Pandemic and Globalization

“Two-pack of paper towel per member,” “five max for masks,” “stocking instant noodles.” These are some slogans and tags we often see around Costco or Walmart during the last two years of the pandemic. At the same time, we heard countries in short of immunization or masks supplies…

WP2: How long will workers leverage for an employer to last for?

Beginning on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2, a pandemic. From then on I bet you have seen many signs on business and shops saying “help wanted” or…

A Cultural Drive

WP2 Final Draft: A Cultural Battle

Nigel Farage. Marine Le Pen. Jair Bolsonaro. Donald Trump. Again and again we hear about right-wing populist movements in the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, America and in numerous other countries. The mainstream media has extensively…

What form of reparations should Indigenous Australians receive for the extreme wrongdoings their ancestors faced? ​​

Demanding More: The Longevity of Remote Work

[Your boss] is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. The employees of the world have seen this quotidian message a substantial amount since the start of the pandemic. The pandemic forced many companies to adopt a “work-from-home (WFH)” modality, in…

Populism: An Undemocratic Attempt to Solve the Democratic Crisis

The Rise of Populism

The anti-globalization wave today overlaps the rise of populism. Over the past few years, more and more politicians who are in favor of more populist ideologies around the world are gaining supporters, and some of them are being elected to really make policy changes. While the media keeps…

Is conscious consumerism the most effective choice?

“Green”, “Moral act”, and “vote with your dollar.” These phrases promote the concept of conscious consumerism and persuade consumers to follow the righteous way of consumption for global working and environmental conditions. The term…

Why Remote Work Is Here to Stay

For the past decade and a half, my father has worked as a software engineer at JP Morgan Chase. So for the better part of the last decade and a half, he would take an hour-long train ride to work every weekday from our suburbian Connecticut home to his office headquartered…

WP 2 Rough Draft

Populism — a buzzword in the media brought into the spotlight by Donald Trump’s campaign. On the other side of the political spectrum…

WP2 Rough Draft- Pandemic: Should a single country in the current world create a complete domestic supply chain?

The covid has brought people’s lives huge changes: jobs, lifestyle, traveling. The economy of the world, especially, is largely shocked by…

Technology vs Workers

During the pandemic a shift in mindset has occurred towards the ideology of work. The “Great Resignation”, when 33 million Americans quit their jobs since the spring of 2021, has caused many to believe that people’s view on work has significantly been impacted by either government stimulus…

WP2 — Rough Draft — Conscious Consumerism

Humans are beginning to use their spending power to compensate for their environmentally damaging actions, thereby offsetting certain environmental ‘costs’ by going “green”. This idea is known as ‘conscious consumerism’. This shift in consumerism has been…

The COVID-19 pandemic.

The first reason that remote work will continue after the pandemic is that people could essentially have “a meeting with theirselves”…

Conscious Consumerism on Combatting Climate Change

When I used to live in Northern California, I would spend my family beach days with a trash bag in hand, picking up empty plastic bottles and miscellaneous debris I found scattered on the sand. An hour worth of work and half a trash bag full…

Does pandemic signify a new era of globalization?

“Travel halted”, “Border shut”, “people lockdown”. These are common words shown in the news since the pandemic. The isolation situation caused by the epidemic made more and more people think about the impact of the pandemic on globalization…

How Consumers Can Overcome the Struggles of Conscious Consumerism

The trend that has developed over the last 15 years is to “go green” and currently this statement has evolved into a full-fledged movement. Individuals and businesses alike have taken a serious stance on the current…

Restitution for Collective Past Trauma: The Asian American Case

In a June 2014 article, Ta-Nehisi Coates put forward a comprehensive case calling for financial restitution to Black Americans for the country’s century-long mistreatment of the community. A little knowledge of Asian American history would show the overlapping…

WP2 RD — Meaning of Work

How has the pandemic affected the meaning of work? Has the pandemic created an upward trend in choosing “meaningful” pathways of work?

COVID-19 emerged at a time when many people were working day in, day out, life passing by at an ever increasing rate…

WP2 Rough Draft

The COVID 19 ripped through countries around the world wreaking havoc and creating chaos. Families were broken, jobs were lost, and a global sentiment of pain and anguish was felt for the better half of the past two years. With that being said, in lieu of all the bad that has occurred, the pandemic…

Will the trend of remote working continue?

After the outbreak of covid-19, “social distancing” became a common term in our life. We quarantine ourselves and spend most of our time at home. Furthermore, after a while of adaptation, many job positions, especially information jobs, offered remote…

WP2 Rough Draft — Is populism killing our economy?

In the field of political science, phrases such as “us versus them” and “the pure people” in the speeches of many political figures are…

WP #2

Is Great Resignation just a temporary thing and will it change our concept of a workplace?

As the pandemic of COVID-19 started to spread around the world, it sparked a lot of interesting changes or movements. One of the movements influenced by the pandemic is the so-called “Great…

WP2RD930S22

In 2021, the Dixie Fire, the largest single wildfire in Nevada state history, burned nearly 1 million acres. Glaciers melted and polar bear populations lost 10% in genetic diversity over the last 20 years. Extreme and unusually cold weather at Jharkhand, India killed the crops in the harvest season. Our…

Covid on employment

I still vaguely remember the morning when our teacher told us not to go to school and switch to online classes. Instead of sitting in the classroom engaging with other students, I was sitting in front of the screen, experiencing the unique experience of online learning for the first time. The…

Are the Effects of COVID on our Work-Life Balance Here to Stay?

What initially seemed to be a simple and extraordinarily long break somehow changed the entire dynamic of our work lives. A couple of weeks of pure, unadulterated bliss turned into a tiring, scheduled madness as Zoom…

A Greener World with an Extra Effort

Iceberg melting due to the rise of global temperature. Humanity experiencing more and more severe climate change. Human actions have been catalyzing the environmental destruction process. Acknowledging the seriousness of the issue, corporations have been creating…

International Travel: Unrealistic Expectation of Resuming Pre-pandemic Level

“Mask mandated,” “Prepare to present proof of vaccination,” “72 hours negative COVID-19 test result required.” We have been getting used to these phrases in the past two years. While we seek ways to…

There's Still Hope

Globalization is the integration of markets and investments around the world on an economic level. This began in the late 19th century and has continued to grow and develop until coronavirus hit. Since the pandemic arose in 2020, these trade markets have plummeted and have yet to return to…

Can Global Capitalism Solve Climate Change?

On November 8th, 2018, the deadliest wildfire in California ignited, and would range for more than two weeks devastating the town of Paradise before it was extinguished. The fire was spreading an 80 football fields in a minute at its peak. It was only…

Ancillary #4

In the essay “Globalization Will Look Very Different After the Coronavirus Pandemic”, I am impressed and agree with the argument “the new watchword is likely to be risk reduction rather than cost reduction”. It is convincing that pandemic is not the end of globalization but the era of transformation of…

How Corporations and Consumers Alike are Struggling with Conscious Consumerism

The trend that has developed over the last 15 years is to “go green” and currently this statement has evolved into a full-fledged movement. Individuals and businesses alike have taken a serious…

The Next Step: Government’s Engagement in Conscious Consumerism

Conscious consumerism is becoming more relevant in our lives as climate changes and existential environmental crises have been an increasing concern around the globe. As we traced back in history, explained by Stephe…

Will The Pandemic Fundamentally Change How People Work in The U.S?

On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, its first such declaration since the H1N1 in 2009. Now in 2022, everyone’s life has been impacted. The pandemic is a grief crisis worldwide; almost six million people have died. What makes…

WP2

There has never been a constantly increasing trend for globalisation. May it be the Spanish Flu, 2008 financial crisis or the Covid-19 Pandemic, steps have been taken to hamper globalisation, whether they were short-lived or with long terms impacts. While particularly looking at this Pandemic, several countries have…