17 Million Workers May Have to Switch Occupations Post Pandemic

One out of 10 U.S. workers likely will have to leave their current jobs and obtain new ones by 2030 as the pandemic's after-effects decimate big swathes of the employment market, notes Bloomberg . Women, minorities, the young, and the less educated likely will be the hardest hit by what McKinsey & Co. forecasts in a new report will be an unprecedented erosion of work in retail, hospitality, and other sectors. McKinsey Global Institute, the consultancy's research arm, foresees the pandemic accelerating three trends that will continue to upend the labor market going forward: more remote work and working from home; rising e-commerce and a larger "delivery economy;" and increasing use of artificial intelligence and robots.