The St. Petersburg renaissance has been in full swing for more than a decade. We’ve excelled in many areas and struggled in others. In our series St. Pete 2.0, we’re partnering with the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership to explore what lies on the other side of our potential – what will it take to move to the “next level” as a city? Through this series, we’ll dig into specific topics with the hope that you, our thoughtful citizens, will share your insight, experience and wisdom.
As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on our economy, we put out a survey asking the St. Pete Catalyst readers and our members to begin thinking about what a post COVID-19 economy would look like and how our higher education institutions could work with businesses to provide students with the skills needed in the local economy.
We used the forum of St. Pete 2.0 to take a snapshot of how work has changed, and how the future of work will change, in the face of COVID-19. We asked respondents to answer eight open-ended questions surrounding those topics, including how COVID-19 has changed the needs of employees, the skills needed to get the St. Petersburg economy back on track, business lessons learned, and the role of higher eduction.
Click here to read what we found on the St. Pete Catalyst website.