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The COVID-19 pandemic has heavily affected all industries in all over the World. Although some factories stopped their production activities due to the precautions, the most of privately owned Turkish carpet manufacturers have continued their production continuously. We have arranged several meetings with two credible carpet manufactures to ask for absenteeism rates of blue-collar workers. We have collected the data and analyzed it by comparing prepandemic conditions. We have seen that absenteeism rates have significantly changed. In addition, we surveyed 1258 employees from 2 carpet manufacturer and found that %81.31 of them have at least 1-day sick absence during the pandemic due to a real Covid 19 or being a suspect of being Covid19 (has a contact with a Covid 19 positive person). It can be stated that at least for these two carpet manufacturers, absenteeism rates were relatively higher when compared to condition before pandemic. We have already seen some of the effects of absenteeism on the production quantities and some other effects are expected to be realized soon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes strengthening participatory supervision through the Online Participatory Supervisory Cadre School during simultaneous regional elections in West Kalimantan in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic. The General Elections Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) is the body responsible for organizing and supervising elections. Bawaslu has a mission to create community-based participatory control. With this mission, Bawaslu initiated the Participatory Supervisory Cadre School, a joint movement between Bawaslu and the community to create an election process with integrity. The Online Participatory Supervisory Cadre School aims to increase knowledge and practical skills regarding supervision for election supervisors and observers as well as share knowledge and skills regarding youth participation, especially online during a pandemic. The establishment of this school received a positive response from the community, the high enthusiasm of young people in registering was a good first step for Bawaslu to create community-based participatory control as a supervisor for elections and regional elections in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report on the design & development of an introductory analytics course delivered to over 6,000 students undergraduate business students thus far. The course is delivered in a hybrid mode, arguably the best combination of online and face to face delivery modes. The Pandemic reinforced that lesson, among others. We explore those lessons and suggest directions for further research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]