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In a goodbye email one of my colleagues wrote the below sentence. He has used has also been, which I feel is incorrect. He was talking about a past event. According to me he should use was instead of has been.
During this time, the world, especially ours has also been rapidly changing with the advent of new technologies, SMAC, customer dynamics and expectations.
Correct me if I am wrong.
You said it is a goodbye email, so for him, he is talking about an era that is over, a chapter closed for him now (perfect tense).
So the use of perfect tense is very reasonable imho.
Although use of 'was' will also be correct grammatically but this construction is more expressive for his situation.
The reason for this is that the action he is describing started in the past and is still happening now (and may or may not continue into the future.)
This is the perfect situation for present perfect continuous tense.
