We show you the impact that Covid-19 had on the professional life of parentswhere some chose to leave the workforce and others decided to change careers.
For two years now the Covid-19 had a direct impact on professional life of millions of workers around the world, where some were fortunate to move to the home office mode to continue maintaining their income, while others were unable to obtain this opportunity and lost their jobs.
According to the studies on Business Demography 2020 and 2021 (EDN) carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), it was shown that they were approximately 1.6 million businesses that had to permanently close their doors due to the pandemicaffecting the economy of millions of Mexican families and having direct repercussions on the GDP at the national level (which registered a decrease of -9.2 percent according to Statista data).
There are different factors when we find out why millions of businesses closed during the Covid-19 pandemicas well as the decrease in social mobility to prevent the spread of the virus, the low flow of customers between stores due to the red traffic light, the decline in workers’ income, a lot of supply, little demand, etc., which had an impact on direct impact on the professional lives of millions of employees.
There is no doubt about the impact that Covid-19 had on the professional life of millions of workers, since the report of the International Labor Organization (ILO) showed that during the second quarter of 2020 the wage loss for women was 8.1 percent, while for men this represented 5.4 percentdirectly affecting their economies.
Despite the indisputable economic effect, the pandemic gave an opportunity to millions of businesses and professionals around the planet to find a new way to increase their income, if they decided to adopt the world digitalsince there has been an exponential growth in income in recent years in this area (and will continue to do so).
The decrease in social mobility generated an increase in the adoption of digital platforms as digital content consumption channelsas well as to offer “places” where millions of people around the world can find a new way to buy the respective products and services of their daily lives, as was seen through the delivery platforms, the increase in permanence in social networks, streaming and increased sales in all kinds of marketplaces.
In accordance with estimates on electronic commerce in Latin America According to Statista, Mexico registered in 2021 profits of 17.3 billion dollars in 2021, a figure which is expected to grow to 19.3 billion dollars by 2025, that is, a growth of 11 percent.
This has caused more and more companies to choose to carry out all kinds of digital marketing strategiesl in order to increase their positioning in the virtual world, generate more traffic to their web pages and, therefore, higher sales (as long as they have the necessary knowledge).
The pandemic caused an increase in activity in the digital worldwhere millions of professionals found new ways to work.