Not only that the covid pandemic has created an incentive for businesses to not hire people and instead try to automate most of their processes so even if things went back to normal right now many of those jobs are never coming back, so we are in a very interesting point in history as new technologies that in the past generated as many jobs as they destroyed seems like they will take way more jobs than in the past and this will create massive unemployment.
That is the bad side of the things we have right now, but we have to look at the good side as well which is remote working. The whole world learned that many jobs could have been done from home, and even though lockdowns are not a thing anymore, some jobs are still done at home, as long as it can be done from home why make people go to work?
It saves money for the company too and every worker would rather be at home too, so it is a win-win situation both for the worker and the company. Automation will destroy jobs eventually anyway, but remote work wasn't going to happen without covid, so we could say in the business world the biggest change was people who worked from home.
Automation on the other hand would have been done with higher and better tech anyway, we need to figure out how this increasing amount of population with decreasing amount of jobs available can survive, because it is not anymore and unemployment is record breakingly high all over the world.
