{"id":3689,"date":"2020-12-16T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:35:30","slug":"shopping-for-the-holidays-keep-your-distance-from-retail-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/2020\/shopping-for-the-holidays-keep-your-distance-from-retail-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping for the Holidays? Keep Your Distance from Retail Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Shopping for the Holidays? Keep Your Distance from Retail Workers\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><em>This article was first published on The Conversation and is written by Nada Elnahla, PhD Candidate, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University and Leighann Neilson, Associate Professor, Marketing, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. The article is based on a study they conducted with the funding support of the Centre for Research on Inclusion at Work (CRIW).&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maintaining social distancing inside retail stores during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a daily source of contention between retail workers and customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet this distance is more than a safety regulation to front-line retail workers. Inside the store, this two-meter space has become a sign of respect and an acknowledgement of their humanity&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/shopping-for-the-holidays-keep-your-distance-from-retail-workers-151633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining social distancing inside retail stores during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a daily source of contention between retail workers and customers. Yet this distance is more than a safety regulation to front-line retail workers. Inside the store, this two-meter space has become a sign of respect and an acknowledgement of their humanity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[63,73,62,66,67,33,37],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criw-news","tag-centre-for-research-on-inclusion-at-work-criw","tag-covid","tag-criw","tag-inclusion","tag-inclusive-workplaces","tag-news","tag-research"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}