COVID-19 could potentially reshape people’s shopping habits based on the way that businesses respond to the crisis. Canvas8 spoke to semiotics expert Soma Ghosh to learn how brands are honing their communications to reassure and empower audiences – and win their loyalty in the process.

With work-related stress forcing many NHS staff to quit their jobs, hospitals across the UK are stepping up their game to take care of their personnel. Employees don’t want to work at the cost of their own health, so they’re searching for companies that offer wellbeing initiatives.

With the COVID-19 pandemic causing people to stay at home out of a sense of public responsibility, artists are having to cancel shows worldwide. How are live-streaming platforms filling the void, and could digital behaviours during the crisis create long-term changes in how people consume music?

Kindly neighbours and families have taken it upon themselves to buy essentials for self-isolating older people, but without access to banks, paying them back is a challenge. To fix this, the Post Office has launched two services that make it easier for people to access cash on another person’s behalf.