THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ON THE WAY OF WORKING IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS

Abstract

With the onset of the health crisis caused by Covid-19, measures of social distance were taken on a large scale and globally. An immediate consequence of this was the decrease in economic activity worldwide. Invariably the work began to suffer the consequences of these measures. For a portion of the population, engaged in specific tasks, it was possible to continue exercising their work activities remotely, others were removed, some continued to work as before and a last group was disconnected. This work proposes to investigate the impact of Pandemic on the public and private sector work. To this end, it sought to assess how many busy people were away from their activities and how many have been doing their jobs remotely. With data from work during the pandemic, it can be seen that people employed in the public sector find themselves more intensely in remote work or even on leave due to social distance than workers in the private sector. Even separating the private sector according to economic activity, the public sector continues to have significantly different percentages than that observed in the services (which are closest), trade, industry or agriculture. Observing people in remote work, it is noted that they are whiter than the total employed, have a higher percentage of women than the total, and are considerably concentrated in people with complete higher education. In addition, a considerable percentage is in the public sector. This same sector showed a gain when it comes to distance due to social distance.