It is mainly in the hotel and restaurant industry that the most bleak figures can be found. There are just under 17,000 registered, which corresponds to almost a third of the number notified in Western Gothenburg during the spring period.
On the other hand, it looks much better with increasing need for care and care, as well as in green industries such as forest workers and pickers.
- The crisis will accelerate the structural transformation. The advice to those who become unemployed is to look for the jobs that exist and to update their skills to be ready to take on the jobs that come when the crisis is over, says Annika Sundén, Head of Analysis at the Employment Service.
In Sweden, almost 100,000 more are unemployed today compared to March 1. Nearly 410,000, or 8.0 percent of the workforce, are now enrolled as unemployed at the employment services.