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News digest

  • Do not fire workers
  • Save a job cheaper than creating a new one
  • Hopes for the IMF
  • Furnishing for work at home
  • Cardboard table for self-image

Everything that happened last week in Ukraine and the world and is relevant for the furniture maker, read in our digest:

1. The head of state announced important support programs for ordinary people and businesses.
Please do not fire people, we will support you – small, medium-sized businesses,” – Volodymyr Zelensky said. And this despite the fact that the government already promised to pay people who lost their jobs due to quarantine. The President said that soon government programs will be developed to support citizens and businesses affected by restrictive quarantine measures. According to him, several such programs are being prepared, and they will be designed for different segments of the population.

2. The President of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Gennady Chizhikov urged to make sure that the business got out of the quarantine with minimal losses.
According to our estimates, more than two million people have difficulties with work. We studied employment-related sites. If in quarantine there the main defendants were young people who were looking for their first job, now the trend is shifting. There are more people who are 28-40-odd years old.
In our estimation, the preservation of any workplace is five times cheaper than the creation of any new workplace. Therefore, we must join forces to support Ukrainian business. Small businesses have stocks until mid-April.

3. Economist Sergey Kozak predicts: if the IMF provides Ukraine, in addition to the five billion that were mentioned, a few billion more to compensate for losses due to the crisis and the coronavirus, then we are guaranteed to go through this crisis without any serious shocks, defaults without huge unsecured emissions, without devaluations, without inflation and the like. That is, it will be a little difficult, but not catastrophic. If not, it’s hard to say what will happen.

4. The online magazine Dezeen published the thoughts of the Ukrainian architect Sergey Makhno on how houses can change after global quarantine. As for architecture, it also concerns furniture.
During quarantine, most are forced to work from home. Therefore, in the future, more attention will be paid to the arrangement of the workplace at home. The spatial organization will change when the place to work at home is no longer a desk with a parody of an office chair, where in the corner of the living room or under the stairs. And whoever the living space allows, are located under the home office and will be given a separate room with blackout curtains and comfortable furniture. It will be suitably technically equipped and soundproofed.

5. Danish startup Stykka has developed a simple desktop that can be easily assembled from three cardboard parts. The finished table has a width of 120 centimeters, a depth of 62 centimeters and a height of 82 centimeters. It can be assembled in minutes and reinforced with cable ties. StayTheFuckHome Desk (this is the name of the table) can be ordered online or use free access to download the template and make it yourself. Since the table is made of cardboard, it will be easy to dispose of it after the pandemic.

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