Impact of changes caused by the pandemic on the current state and development of oil and gas companies

The results of sociological research in the oil and gas industry are presented in the article, revealing the recent social changes with a major impact on the Russian oil and gas market and the personnel management system. The article deals with demographic reasons and the role of the pandemic, which endangered post-millennials. The authors reevaluate the impact of digitalization on the Generation Z, which led to the reduction of working digital natives, since they will not live to work, but they will work to live. Gender, age, and professional characteristics of employees in oil and gas companies have been analyzed, as well as the current state and development trends of the labor market. The article emphasizes the priority of individual characteristics of "digital people", rather than staff numbers and pay level of the employees. This view resulted from the new reality of COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical trends, sanctions policy, the global spread of digital technologies, mixing of socio-economic orientations and personal development. These people are unwilling to depend on anyone, but the ideal manager for them is the one who sets tasks most clearly and definitely.

Canada's multi-jurisdictional COVID-19 public health response - January to may 2020

In late January 2020, the first COVID-19 case was reported in Canada. By March 5, 2020, community spread of the virus was identified and by May 26, 2020, close to 86,000 patients had COVID-19 and 6,566 had died. As COVID-19 cases increased, provincial and territorial governments announced states of public health emergency between March 13 and 20, 2020. This paper examines Canada's public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic during the first four months (January to May 2020) by overviewing the actions undertaken by the federal (national) and regional (provincial/territorial) governments. Canada's jurisdictional public health structures, public health responses, technological and research endeavours, and public opinion on the pandemic measures are described. As the pandemic unravelled, the federal and provincial/territorial governments unrolled a series of stringent public health interventions and restrictions, including physical distancing and gathering size restrictions;closures of borders, schools, and non-essential businesses and services;cancellations of non-essential medical services;and limitations on visitors in hospital and long-term care facilities. In late May 2020, there was a gradual decrease in the daily numbers of new COVID-19 cases seen across most jurisdictions, which has led the provinces and territories to prepare phased re-opening. Overall, the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada and the substantial amount of formative health and policy-related data being created provide an insight on how to improve responses and better prepare for future health emergencies.