Pre-Assignment for Business & Society Fall 2022
One action that society has taken that directly influenced a business.
An action that society has influenced businesses was when pandemic started, many people run to
stores to get a lot of toilet paper, food (majority of frozen and canned), alcohol, hand sanitizer,
and stuff for a bathroom. This performance made stores create shopping rules for those goods.
Then, each family could have the same possibility to get those products when visiting the store.
The exact rule was, “each household can get just one item per visit”. I think this action
influenced businesses because one of their main businesses’ purposes is to sell their service or
goods. In this case all retail companies could sell all their supplies to just one customer.
Likewise, their social responsibility needed them to make sure every family who visited their
locations had the same opportunity to other consumers. Covid changed everybody lives, I am
pretty sure nobody is the same person after pandemic hit the world. Hopefully all actions taken
could change our thoughts to create healthy and better decisions that provide help to society and
business in general.
One action that a business has taken that directly influenced society.
Something that businesses’ actions influenced society is social responsibility. In this case I am
going to talk about the company Shein. This is a fashion e-commerce platform that distributes
clothes for every boy type, accessories, shoes, bags, and other fashion items, most of them in a
low cost. I bring this example here because on social media, and some clothes we can see many
messages “from workers” (on tags) or labor defendants like “SOS”, “HELP ME”, etc. Into
investigation, some reporters talk to workers saying that they must work for 75 hours each week
with only one day off per month. Also, Shein is paying extremely low wages and poor working
conditions. All those actions taken by this company made some consumers skip getting their
goods. There was a campaign in social median to be socially responsible and stop getting stuff
from companies that violated workers, and animals’ rights.
Likewise, those laboratories that taste their make-up/products on animals. Some individuals
stopped visiting these stores and opt out for companies with more social responsibility.
Even though not everybody is opting for “better companies” and those action could not be
influencing everybody. However, I see more people aware of what is happening around them and
supporting beneficial organizations.