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.

No espaço de apenas algumas semanas, a pandemia de COVID-19 causada pelo novo coronavírus transformou radicalmente a vida das pessoas em todo o mundo. Para além das consequências devastadoras para a saúde das pessoas diretamente afetadas pelo vírus, a pandemia de COVID-19 teve grandes implicações na forma como as pessoas vivem e trabalham, afetando profundamente o seu bem-estar físico e psicológico. Para ter em conta os efeitos económicos e sociais imediatos desta crise, a Eurofound lançou, a 9 de abril, um vasto inquérito em linha em toda a União Europeia e não só.