Workers and employers in a variety of under-the-radar industries around the country told us about how they’re struggling or managing to change amid the pandemic
Stay-at-home orders have reconfigured daily life so thoroughly that many businesses have had to adapt in creative and surprising ways, even in sectors not staring down imminent disaster.
Hardesty, president of the Michigan Council of Professional Investigators, is seeing about 90 percent less business than usual. A native New Zealander who earned a Ph.D. in ecology and a Southern drawl from the University of Georgia, Paterson knows he traded security for freedom with his second career. But many Vegas entertainers had only recently emerged from the Great Recession’s lingering hit.
After all, “we are dependent on people coming in and getting services,” she said. “The very nature of our business is personal space invasion.”For Bison, a sporting goods manufacturer in Lincoln, Neb., the state’s refusal to impose a stay-at-home order means that employees are still at work. Beyond that, reducing hours or the workforce might have to come into play. “We’re crossing our fingers that it doesn’t come to that,” he said.Some countervailing forces have affected the fortunes of the New York-based sex doll company Silicon Wives over the past few months.
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