PETALING JAYA — A total of 81 million jobs are estimated to have been lost in Asia-Pacific countries in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, says the International Labor Organization (ILO).
In its report Asia–Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2020: Navigating the crisis towards a human-centered future of work released yesterday, the organization said the pandemic hit workers in various ways, with many forced into shorter working hours amid a shrinking job growth market.
In the report, it said it was “estimated that employment in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2020 will drop by 4.2% to 1.839 billion persons from the pre-crisis estimate of 1.920 billion employed”.
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