Summary
On Business Weekly we be look at how our employers are going to keep us safe as we cautiously head out of lockdown and back into the workplace. But if our temperatures are taken and our movements recorded, how will they address that sensitive balance between safety and privacy? As soon as we’re back at work we might want a holiday - but will anywhere be open for tourists? We get the view from Spain the second most visited country on the planet. Plus, the food supply chain the the US is in crisis as a result of the Corona virus. We hear from farmers and unions who are worried for the future. And we find out why there’s a new boss at TikTok and hear from the managing director of a puzzle makers who tells us just why this old fashioned game is more popular than ever. Presented by Lucy Burton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment, |
| 0:06.1 | and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments. |
| 0:10.1 | That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly, |
| 0:14.4 | a new weekend programme which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking stories you might have missed |
| 0:21.7 | from the BBC's business team. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello, this is Business Weekly and I'm Lucy Burton. Welcome to the show. Today, we've got a |
| 0:33.9 | special report on the crisis in America's meat industry. Many food processing plants |
| 0:38.9 | are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic and farmers are worried that stock that's ready for market |
| 0:43.9 | may have to be destroyed. We'll hear the personal story of a pig farmer who's incredibly |
| 0:49.3 | concerned about the future. And one of the surprising success stories of the lockdown, Jigsaw puzzles. |
| 0:55.6 | We'll be chatting to one puzzle maker later in the show about just what makes them so popular. |
| 1:00.9 | Now though, it's time to talk about heading back to work. As we've discussed before on Business Weekly, |
| 1:06.5 | governments around the world are keen to get people back into their workplaces in order to stave off a deep global recession. |
| 1:13.6 | But COVID-19 isn't really going away soon, even if in some parts of the world the peak has passed. |
| 1:20.0 | So where does that leave businesses? How can they keep their employees safe while still remaining productive? |
| 1:26.4 | If all our temperatures are taken as we go |
| 1:28.4 | into the office and if our movements are monitored so we keep a good distance from our colleagues, |
| 1:32.8 | is that reassuring or is it a gross invasion of privacy? It's something that my colleague |
| 1:38.1 | Manuel de Salagossa has been looking at this week. Manuel, for many of us, heading back into work, |
| 1:43.3 | could cause quite a bit of anxiety. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, and you sort of get used to working at home and you're in an environment where you can control everything. |
| 1:51.0 | You know, you minimise your outings, you clean your desk and your computer, |
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