Businesses across the globe 'quick to adapt to threat' of covid-19: research

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With countries across the world still under lockdown due to covid-19, new research commissioned by Aetna International, published today, shows a majority of businesses in UK, USA, UAE and Singapore had prepared and reacted to the growing threat pre-lockdown. Aetna International's research, conducted between 4 and 27 March, showed that 83% of businesses had already taken some form of action to support employees. According to the research, by 11 March almost a third (31%) of businesses had already given employees the option to work remotely, and 44% had issued health tips to employees. ...

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Christopher Copper-Ind

Christopher Copper-Ind is editor-in-chief of International Investment. Before this, he was editorial director of The Business Year, from 2014 to 2017.