Lessons From The Pandemic: Work Inclusively by Be Inclusive

Covid 19 has been a catalyst for Asia's corporate world to rethink the future of work. In this episode Petrina and Laurindo hear how co-working spaces have adapted from The Great Room's Jaelle Ang. Lu-Lyn Chang from Bray Leino Splash shares creative ways for maintaining connection with teams in isolation. Shashi Nathan from Withers KhattarWong explains how the court system has gone virtual. Carrie Tan from Daughters of Tomorrow considers the impact of working from home on domestic workers. And songwriter Miss Lou explains how shifting online could make a performer's life more sustainable.
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Laurindo Garcia: [00:00:00] Welcome back to another episode of inclusively in the series, we'll be asking the question, how has the pandemic help change people's lives and what lessons we have learned that could make the post pandemic world more inclusive? I'm your host Laurindo Garcia.
Petrina Kow: [00:00:15] And I'm Petrina Kow. Welcome. Today's theme is all about work and I think all of us have been probably in our lives. This is the area that has had the biggest shifts and biggest sort of seismic movements for most of us who have been working. And for me at least, I feel like, you know, it it kind of dawned on me with the work that I do, it's like, oh, I could have been doing this all my life. Why didn't I do this before? You know, and I'm very blessed. I'm very, very grateful that I'm still able to do a lot of work and in this time. And so for me, it's been really interesting just finding new audiences, finding new clients internationally, which is something I would never have, you know, thought to kind of pursue. But then it's like, oh, yeah, I can have a Canadian client. Yeah, I can you know, I can have claims from all over the world because I can see them, you know, in this way. So it's been really interesting for me just to to kind of broaden my idea of what work can be like, you know, at my end.
Laurindo Garcia: [00:01:24] I feel I'm pretty privileged. I have been working remotely and working in remote teams for the past 16 years. So I'm feeling kind of comfortable in a setup like this. But what has been the real disruption at home is my husband has now been working at home for the first time in his broadcast media and they never thought that he and his teams would be shifting to working from home. So now we're having to work out how to navigate and share the space together at home. And so for this part, because I had to kick him out and kind of move him to the other area because this is the better sounding room. So it's been interesting for him. And he's already going into the three month period because they they started quite early. But all in all, it's been pretty good. We've been both very productive and I'm feeling kind of lucky. And I know not everybody has that same same situation.
Petrina Kow: [00:02:21] I'm very excited to get right into it because I got a packed show. We have got five guests in the show today. And, you know, apart from looking at small businesses and medium to large enterprises, we're also gonna be talking to a lawyer in Singapore to think about how the legal system is continue through this lockdown in this period. I suppose like virtual courtrooms and things like that. And we'll also be speaking to a matinee executive who's led a transition from brainstorming in person to brainstorming and isolation and having to make decisions that way. So it's all gonna be very, very exciting.
Laurindo Garcia: [00:03:00] Plus, we'll have an executive director of a non for profit who's been helping women from low income families gain employment. That is Carrie Tan from Daughters of Tomorrow. Carrie will be offering a perspective on how the workforce of the future in the post pandemic world could be more inclusive. And finally, we'll also be having a guest artist today, a jazz songwriter and performer, Miss Lu.
Petrina Kow: [00:03:21] Yeah, but to kick us off, I'd like to introduce our very first gu