Forecasting future changes in the labor market of Ukraine as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

The article is devoted to assessing of the state of the labor market and forecasting future changes in the field of labor under the influence of the coronavirus pandemic. As a result of analysis of foreign and domestic sources of information, statistics on planned layoffs, registered and actual unemployment in Ukraine, it was concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to global changes in the labor market and the nature of labor, and therefore employers and employees need to adapt to new living conditions. The main directions of these changes are outlined and the best practices of adaptation of enterprises to them are demonstrated in this research. It is proved that quarantine measures have led to a more intensive reduction of low-skilled personnel, mainly working professions, and irreversible processes of spreading the remote form of workplace organization. This will require further regulation of distance work, intensification of retraining programs of released human resources, strengthening their social protection, support of employers, especially small businesses, during the coronary crisis