COVID-19

This report will focus on assessing the employment impact of the COVID-19 crisis, including its effects across sectors and for different categories of workers. It will also be looking at measures implemented to limit negative effects following the Coronavirus outbreak in Europe.

This report presents the findings of the Living, working and COVID-19 e-survey, carried out by Eurofound to capture the far-reaching implications of the pandemic for the way people live and work across Europe. The survey was fielded online, among respondents who were reached via Eurofound’s stakeholders and social media advertising. Two rounds of the e-survey have been carried out to date: one in April, when most Member States were in lockdown, and one in July, when society and economies were slowly re-opening.

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of individuals and societies, including on the economy and labour markets, is unprecedented. The impact of the global health emergency has placed a growing number of businesses under threat, putting the jobs of more and more workers at risk and impacting the livelihoods of many citizens. Policymakers moved swiftly in an effort to mitigate the social and economic effects on businesses, workers and citizens. Eurofound’s COVID-19 EU PolicyWatch database provides information on initiatives introduced to cushion these effects.

Za pouhých několik týdnů změnila pandemie COVID-19, způsobená novým koronavirem, radikálním způsobem životy lidí na celém světě. Kromě ničivých dopadů na zdraví lidí, kteří jsou virem postiženi přímo, pandemie COVID-19 zásadním způsobem ovlivnila způsob života a práce lidí, což má závažný dopad na jejich tělesnou i duševní pohodu. S cílem zaznamenat bezprostřední hospodářské a sociální dopady této krize, nadace Eurofound dne 9. dubna zahájila rozsáhlý on-line průzkum v celé Evropské unii i mimo ni.