Today’s white-collar staff are living through a radical transformation of professional life — one that economists say is already beginning to jump-start economic productivity and accelerate innovation.

The pandemic’s summer resurgence is slowing the global economic recovery as the delta variant dogs efforts to rev up factories, offices and schools.

Across the world, a dearth of workers is shaking up food supply chains.

Orders at factories are piling up as companies around the world struggle to meet demand amid a damaging mixture of the coronavirus and widespread bottlenecks in supply chains.

Vaccine mandates are set to get more common in the workplace.

Michael Einhorn, chief executive officer of medical supplier Dealmed, explains how the healthcare purchasing system frustrates attempts to diversify sourcing of personal protective equipment and head off future shortages in times of emergency.

The snarls that finally toppled one of the world’s best-maintained supply chains have sparked deeper questions about whether the auto industry’s strategies to prioritize efficiency and maintain minimal inventory will endure in the post-pandemic world.

Somewhere in the world’s busiest port of Shanghai, a container of fertilizer sits among tens of thousands of boxes, waiting for a ride to the U.S. It’s been on the dock for months, trapped by typhoons and Covid outbreaks that have worsened major congestion in the global supply-chain network.

Hospitals in the Southeast are running low on oxygen, with the worst-hit left only 12 to 24 hours worth, according to a hospital-supply purchasing group.

Vaccine mandates are beginning a march across the U.S., constricting the places that people who have shunned the shots can work, shop and play.