covid-19 small businesses

Ian Bremmer: COVID made us rethink labor

Ian Bremmer: COVID made us rethink labor

Ian Bremmer has a message for businesses, and not just small ones: workers have been through a lot with COVID, so they're rethinking their relationship with their job. "They're saying, well, maybe I don't need to spend all that time with people. I don't care as much about maybe I wanna work more flexibly. Maybe I don't want to go to the office every day. Maybe I don't wanna work for a big faceless corporation. Maybe I want to be closer to the purpose of my organization. Maybe I want the work to mean more to me."

Should small businesses embrace public-private partners?

Should small businesses embrace public-private partners?

Definitely, says Kiva CEO Chris Tsakalakis. "No one individual or one group can fund what needs to get done in order to support these businesses," he says during a livestream conversation on small businesses and pandemic recovery hosted by GZERO Media in partnership with Visa. Kiva, he explains, works with all sorts of partners — including resilient borrowers and lenders, often private ones, who support those loans.