And then we saw people that worked for nonessential businesses that were closed, those that were collecting the extended unemployment benefits, the extra benefits. We saw where many of them just did not want to come back to work. And so our president thought, well, we need to end these extended unemployment benefits, and that'll provoke everybody to go back to work when they're not getting that extra $600 a week or whatever they were getting. So those extended benefits ended, and guess what?
Swati Sharma
@Swatiselflove · 1:41
Hi, Tanya. That was the most unfortunate side of the COVID story, where a lot many people were asked to quit their jobs. So because the economy as a whole had suffered a severe blow and so many companies and industries, even those multinationals who were doing fairly good earlier, could not keep up with the pace and they were going in for layoff thing. I'm going to share an interesting story over here
They never do. Not real statisticians. The real big thing that a lot of people are missing from all of this is the majority of the jobs that were hired out to be online, blah, blah, blah, in 2020, between 2000 and 22,021 were really for HR and for sales. And that's where all the layoffs have occurred in the tech sector and in other sectors where they've realized, we do not have enough demand to keep up with having all these extra people on staff
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:03
Hey, thank you so much for responding to the swell cast. I'm sorry I'm just now following up with you. You're so right. The pandemic itself really just it was a tremendous blow to a lot of industries and very traumatic for a lot of people that were working just to find out, okay, next week your job has to close because it's not essential. And you're going to have to apply for unemployment women, and you're going to have to manage on that unemployment
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:25
And for some of these business that had to close, you give me three months to sit at home and think about whether I want to subject myself to that again. More than likely, I'm going to say no. Especially when you have other companies that are now creating work from home jobs. We saw business that weren't traditionally work from home become work from home type of industries because out of necessity, they needed people to work. They needed business operations to continue