For instance, our medical care arena includes only caregiving roles requiring close interaction with patients, such as doctors and nurses.
This offers a different view of work than traditional sector definitions. In this research, we develop a novel way to quantify the proximity required in more than 800 occupations by grouping them into ten work arenas according to their proximity to coworkers and customers, the number of interpersonal interactions involved, and their on-site and indoor nature. COVID-19 has, for the first time, elevated the importance of the physical dimension of work. Together, these eight countries account for almost half the global population and 62 percent of GDP.īefore COVID-19, the largest disruptions to work involved new technologies and growing trade links. Here, we assess the lasting impact of the pandemic on labor demand, the mix of occupations, and the workforce skills required in eight countries with diverse economic and labor market models: China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The others look at the pandemic’s long-term influence on consumption and the potential for a broad recovery led by enhanced productivity and innovation. This report on the future of work after COVID-19 is the first of three MGI reports that examine aspects of the postpandemic economy.
Many other workers were deemed essential and continued to work in hospitals and grocery stores, on garbage trucks and in warehouses, yet under new protocols to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. The short-term consequences were sudden and often severe: Millions of people were furloughed or lost jobs, and others rapidly adjusted to working from home as offices closed. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted labor markets globally during 2020.
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