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LISA GILLESPIEHead of Learning and Development Make UK Lisa has been in the HR industry for 25 years in a number of roles. She holds qualifications in law, a post-graduate diploma in HRM, philosophy, psychology and creative writing. In addition she qualified as a practitioner in PRINCE 2 and neurolinguistic programming.
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lgillespie@makeuk.org
Back to the future
GEORGE SANTAYANA, philos- opher, essayist and poet said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.
I consider myself extremely for- tunate to have been able to work from home throughout the current lockdown period. Even more so as, over the last few years, I had chosen to begin working from home more. So, I already had the routine and discipline to see me through weeks of being on my own (with the dog).
I also had the added distraction
of being three months into a ren- ovation project to redecorate my property to reflect its Art Deco vin- tage. Throughout I have been able to order materials, paint, wall-paper and anything I needed online. I’ve never been busier.
My house was built in 1932, the year after the Empire State Building was completed. At that time, mass-pro- duction meant that everyone could enjoy the Art Deco style which easily leant itself to manufactured goods with its geometric patterns, repeti- tive motifs, lacquered and metallic finishes. However, 1932 was also
What we have seen, through the enablement of world-wide collaboration on beating this pandemic, is a global army in PPE, white lab coats, scrubs, driving delivery vans, working on check-outs and volunteering in the community.”
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when the Great Depression was at its height. Over 13 million people in the U.S. were unemployed and 3.5 million in the U.K. The collapse of the German economy opened up the opportunity for Adolf Hitler’s increasing profile in German politics in their July elections. The rest, as they say, is history.
Our economy is fragile but I have been encouraged this week to be asked by members how they be- gin the journey of de-furloughing their employees and, by the time this piece is published, we will have begun the cautious re-mobilisation of people and our economy. But it is only the beginning. Bringing employees back to work requires a high degree of planning. Without a vaccine or reliable antibody test, employers will be at the forefront of finding the right balance between cranking the wheels of the economy whilst ensuring we are not hit by a second surge in COVID-19 cases. At Make UK we support the manufac- turing industry but we have created
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