Phenomenon of “Covid clarity”: Corona is driving millions worldwide to change jobs

Phenomenon of “Covid Clarity”
Corona is driving millions worldwide to change jobs

According to statistics, around 207 million people will be unemployed worldwide this year. However, the number of unreported cases could be much higher. The reason: workers are migrating en masse from sectors such as gastronomy, retail and care – not only in Germany.

According to a report by the International Labor Organization (ILO), countless people have rearranged their priorities in the corona pandemic and left their fields of activity. In some sectors it is becoming increasingly difficult to fill positions, said ILO Director General Guy Ryder in Geneva. He named gastronomy, retail and nursing professions.

The phenomenon is referred to as “Covid clarity,” Ryder said: During the pandemic, people realized that their work was not meeting their expectations or that they were not getting the recognition they wanted.

Many people are not actively looking for work for these and other reasons. The true number of unemployed is therefore certainly higher than official statistics suggest. The ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations. According to official statistics, around 207 million people are expected to be unemployed worldwide this year, according to the ILO report on employment trends 2022. That would be an improvement compared to 2021 (214 million) and 2020 (224 million).

Global labor market is recovering only slowly

In the year before the corona pandemic, 2019, there were only 189 million. “Global labor markets are recovering much more slowly than expected,” Ryder said. The ILO expects the number of unemployed to remain above the pre-crisis level at least until 2023. The reasons are, for example, the particularly contagious coronavirus variants Delta and Omicron and the uncertainty about the course of the pandemic.

According to ILO calculations, in 2022 there should be a working hour deficit compared to the end of 2019, which corresponds to 52 million full-time jobs with a 48-hour week. Eight months ago, the ILO was even more optimistic and had expected a drop for this year that would have corresponded to only 26 million full-time jobs. All figures are adjusted for population growth.

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