Sharing her views on how businesses may navigate the workplace in the post-Covid world, SMU Dean of Students and Professor of Sociology (Practice) Paulin Straughan, noted that businesses should take advantage of changing paradigms to seek out new opportunities. "For businesses to thrive in this new economy, we have to think about what we can do now that we couldn't do in the past when we were working from the office. You have to be alert to the new opportunities that businesses are accorded and how you leverage them," she said.