“Today the situation is this - more than 10% of our citizens work remotely, this is about 5 million 750 thousand people. I want to say that over the past week the number of such citizens has increased by another 100 thousand, ”Kotyakova quotes TASS.
He also noted that the coefficient of tension in the Russian labor market is high - 1.8, which means that 18 job seekers fall on 10 vacancies.
Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Labor said that the most difficult situation on the market is expected in the III quarter of this year.
At the end of May, it was reported that the Russian Ministry of Labor prepared a draft government decree proposing to introduce a special procedure for dismissing, introducing downtime or transferring part-time employees and other work during a pandemic.
The Ministry of Labor also proposed a threefold increase in the minimum unemployment benefit.