Tag: COVID-19 Impact
Saudi lowers price of oil shipments to Asia as COVID-19 cases...
Saudi Arabia lowered prices for oil shipments to customers in its main market of Asia as a surge in coronavirus cases dips energy demand...
eCommerce accounted for 19% of overall retail sales in 2020: UN...
A United Nations' (UN) study showed that online sales accounted for nearly a fifth of total retail turnover last year as lockdowns to combat...
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought in work-from-home opportunities, which were previously limited to a select few.
With most offices across the globe working remotely, people have...
Cross-border business travel is vital for GCC enterprises; Study
UK-based global travel services expert Collinson has found that more than four-fifths of business travelers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia have seen their...
COVID-19 led to women loss more than the combined wealth of...
Gender disparity was existing across the globe even before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the crisis has created the inequality in incomes between men and...
Amazon predicts online shopping behavior will continue even after pandemic recedes
American eCommerce giant Amazon, which benefited massively from a surge in online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, expects the trend to continue even as...
Pandemic benefit: Google saves $1bn in 2020 as employees work remotely
If you are keeping count, you can add one more to the list of benefits that the pandemic has brought for the American search...
COVID-19 hastened ESG adoption of global firms: ADSW Survey
A global survey conducted by Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), a leading summit for accelerating sustainable development and its host Masdar, reveals that 85...