ANALYSIS
"We are on the front line and this time we were even more so. 48 hours after March 16, our activity has dropped by 75%, that is to say that we have lost 500,000 jobs." At the microphone of Europe 1, this Friday, the words of Alain Roumilhac are straightforward. The president of ManpowerGroupe, a company specializing in temporary work, a sector often revealing the state of the job market, draws up the first assessments of the economic crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.
ManPowerGroup published its job prospects for the third quarter of 2020 on Thursday. The peak of unemployment "would be reached in the summer of 2021", according to Alain Roumilhac, who recalls that "business leaders are worried". But it is still positive by listing the sectors that have (all the same) been able to take advantage of this crisis.
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Digital thus seems to be the big winner. "We were working with a company in the digital sector of almost 3,500 people and recruitments are almost at the same level as what we had before the crisis. For three weeks, we have started to grow again because our clients have understood that They had to invest in new digital services. We will have to rebuild new digital relationships, "analyzes the CEO.
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"We are looking for a lot of order pickers"
Like Amazon, a multinational company specializing in online commerce and growing during the coronavirus crisis, e-commerce and the logistics sector are also in high demand for jobs. "Today, we are looking for a lot of order pickers", develops Alain Roumilhac, recalling that the sectors "which have resisted the crisis", like the pharmaceutical sector, "where it is a question of relocating", and some agrifood companies (which have benefited from containment), which are also among the areas that have escaped the worst.