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marmar

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Mon Oct 19, 2020, 12:15 PM Oct 2020

Fear of Job Loss Haunts Half of World's Workers as Crisis Rages


(Bloomberg) -- More than half of workers around the world are worried about losing their jobs, according to a survey measuring labor-market insecurity wreaked by the coronavirus crisis.

The poll of 12,430 people for the World Economic Forum showed 54% of them are either “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” that their employment will cease in the next year. Respondents were from 27 countries spread around the world, including almost all of the Group of 20 economies. .........(more)

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/fear-of-job-loss-haunts-half-of-world-s-workers-as-crisis-rages




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Fear of Job Loss Haunts Half of World's Workers as Crisis Rages (Original Post) marmar Oct 2020 OP
Sad, and guess what the billionaires and millionaires are doing? Building out of the way fortresses SWBTATTReg Oct 2020 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. Sad, and guess what the billionaires and millionaires are doing? Building out of the way fortresses
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 12:24 PM
Oct 2020

and stocking up on doomsday supplies, while ignoring the rest of us, IMHO.

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