A few weeks ago I started seeing want ads pop up again and I thought, well, good luck, who's gonna come to an English teaching job now? Aside from international travel restrictions (and bans on foreign passport holders entering China), yo, pandemic in da house right now!
But hiring season's right around the corner, and the job's start September-ish, so.... people will still come? To get up close and personal with a classroom full of vectors? To live among the people and enjoy the unique culture?
Who's even knows if they're working at all next academic year?
And the thing about "online" is, turns out, not that many people have adequate hardware
As a subsidiary of "globalization", what's going to happen to this industry?