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Who thought we'd still be in the grip of the pandemic more than two years after it first came ashore-yet here we are. Indeed, there are many ways people would like things to get back to "normal," whatever that is or was. As with every major tectonic shift, the pandemic has brought out new ways of doing things and changed old way-and in a number of cases likely for good. For example, prior to the pandemic, 1 in 67 jobs was done remotely. Now it's 1 in 7. Experts at LinkedIn who track these trends believe that much of this shift will stay with us. As recently as 12 months to 14 months ago, the average person probably couldn't define supply chain, much less understand it's complexity and impact on our daily lives. Now it's front-page news almost every day. In the meantime, the impact on transportation has been profound, and it's not restricted to any single mode. All have been affected, and the biggest single driver is the shift from business-to-business (B2B) to business-to-consumer (B2C), as home delivery shot upward when people simply couldn't get out to physical stores. |