Tag: pandemic

  • The Summer of the Future of Work

    The Summer of the Future of Work

    Happy Canada Day! Across the Northern Hemisphere, the start of July marks a summer break from work and school which resume in full swing in September. What’s different in 2021 is that the September return-to-work will for many mean going back to the workplace for the first time since March 2020! Indeed, the global pandemic…

  • Farewell open source

    Farewell open source

    A year ago today we found ourselves in San Francisco proudly accepting an Elastic Search Award. A year ago today, COVID-19 had not yet been declared a global pandemic, and the Elastic Stack was open source. Today, the Elastic Stack is no longer open source, and we’re in the second wave of a global pandemic.…

  • Open for business today and a better tomorrow

    Open for business today and a better tomorrow

    As we begin 2021 in the second (or even third!) wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses around the world have by now, with few exceptions, been forced to shift, scale or even suspend their operations. During the first wave, many companies and organisations sought out contact tracing and social distancing solutions to minimise or delay…

  • Every Day is a New Normal

    Every Day is a New Normal

    In the Spring of 2020, as COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, and as lockdowns ensued, the question of the day was “when will we get back to normal?” Soon thereafter, as the unprecedented socioeconomic consequences of the pandemic became apparent, the question of the day became “what will be the new normal?” In either…

  • GR8 changes ahead

    GR8 changes ahead

    It’s July 2020, and today we celebrate reelyActive’s eighth anniversary of incorporation amidst a global pandemic and a tumultuous global climate, both political and planetary. If anything is certain, it is that great changes lie ahead. After the team flew to San Francisco in March to proudly accept an Elastic Search Award for “making physical…