| Business Trends The pandemic and market volatility have had significant impacts on the global petrochemicals and chemicals workforce. This includes accelerating workforce trends such as the adoption of automation, digitization and more remote work, creating greater demand for workers to fill jobs in key areas. This month's Business Trends examines how chemical companies are transforming themselves in this new reality, as well as four levers of transformation that can push companies into the future: energy transition, integrated human-machine collaboration, recoded careers and organizational agility. This Saudi Aramco control center monitors the movement of the company's crude oil, natural gas and refined products. Photo courtesy of Saudi Aramco.