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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Techies and teachers take white-collar hit -Basant Kumar Mohanty

Techies and teachers take white-collar hit -Basant Kumar Mohanty

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published Published on Sep 19, 2020   modified Modified on Sep 20, 2020

-The Telegraph

32.6% of the 18.1 million jobs in the country were lost in four months

India witnessed the erosion of nearly a third of its white-collar jobs between May and August, with professionals like software engineers, teachers, accountants and analysts taking the biggest hit, a survey by a data agency has shown.

The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy has found that 5.9 million (32.6 per cent) of the 18.1 million white-collar jobs in the country were lost in these four months.

According to the agency, which surveys 1.74 lakh households across urban and rural India every month, this loss has offset the gains the country had made since 2016 in job opportunities for white-collar workers.

The CMIE had earlier estimated a combined loss of 21 million salaried jobs from the organised and unorganised sectors between April and August. But the Centre has declared it does not allow survey data provided by “non-government agencies” to influence its policies.

The CMIE has been tracking changes in the white-collar job scene since January 2016, when it estimated there were 12.5 million such professionals in the country.

The number peaked at 18.8 million during May-August 2019, falling to 18.7 million in the next four months and further to 18.1 million during January-April this year, possibly because of the pandemic-induced lockdown. The sharpest fall came in May-August, with the survey pegging the figure at 12.2 million.

CMIE managing director Mahesh Vyas told The Telegraph that white-collar clerical jobs were less affected than professional jobs.

“We have sliced white-collar workers into two classes — white-collar professional workers and white-collar clerical employees. During May-August 2020, the former group took the biggest hit among all salaried employees. The latter group has not witnessed job losses in this period,” Vyas said.

Professional workers are those who secured their jobs on the basis of their professional qualifications. White-collar clerical employees range from secretaries and office clerks to BPO and KPO workers and data-entry operators. Vyas suggested that most of them were possibly working from home.

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The Telegraph, 19 September, 2020, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/coronavirus-lockdown-techies-and-teachers-take-white-collar-hit/cid/1792413


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