RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION

There is the need to encourage businesses to take the time to consider their future on-boarding and recruitment process, as the unit of 2020 is going to look very different.

Women are more likely to face the brunt of the health risks posed by the pandemic. Apparently, about 36% of working women are key worker roles in sector such as health, food and education - including working mothers - compared to just 18% of men. This makes women twice as likely to be a key worker.

"Where possible, employers should take a flexible approach to when people work, enabling them to balance responsibilities without the often unnecessary pressure of working traditional office hours".

The fact that women in low paid work bear the biggest health and economic risk from coronavirus comes as no surprise, given their likelihood of being vital key workers but also long forgotten by policy makers. As such government policy makers to place higher value on women's unpaid work, and increase support for workers on insecure jobs.