BUSINESS ENGLISH WORD OF THE DAY: UNEMPLOYMENT

BUSINESS ENGLISH WORD OF THE DAY: UNEMPLOYMENT

What was the rate of unemployment in your country during the Coronavirus of 2020?

French translation: chomage

Hello Darlings! Happy Monday!

It is Monday again, and I am here updating my blog after several days of lazy. 😀As I write, the Coronavirus of 2020 is looking like it is starting to pass us, although, fingers crossed, some are praying there won't be a second wave. Meanwhile, I thought I would write about unemployment. By the time you read this, hopefully, this nightmare virus will be a thing of late night comedic skits. But at the time I am writing, there has been a reported record number of unemployed people around the world.

In the USA, they are saying the rate of unemployment is about as high as it was during the Great Depression. People are literally protesting on the streets, demanding to go back to work. And perhaps with good reason. Because unemployment leads to death, too. We know the coronavirus can kill if you catch it. But chances are good you won't catch it. The majority of people will not catch it. This is statistically true. In the USA, as of this writing, there has been about 60,000 cases of death (or fewer) and about 300,000 known cases of infection (approximately speaking). But the population of the United States is 350,000,000! So this tells you right there the vast majority of people won't catch coronavirus - statistically speaking. At the same time, the vast majority of the working population in the USA and in other countries, have caught the unemployment virus. And that has a lot of very disturbing symtoms as well. And the worst of these is death. People die from suicide, stress and other related causes and secondary effects from unemployment.

I am interested to find out how your country or community or company dealt with this issue of employment vs unemployment. What strategies did they employ to keep people employed. Were there big trillion dollar stimulus packages by your government the way they had in the United States? Did your company agree to let you work part time or flex time and give you a partial wage to avoid you becoming an "unemployment data statistic"? And depending on when you read this, how long did it take for your country to get the unemployment rate back to normal?

Well, that and other topics are open for discussion if you would like to take a Business English conversation course with me. Do contact me to discuss one of our options. 

See you in the next one and have a great day.

Note: During this time, I am offering strictly telephone conversation courses to respect the order of President Emmanuel Macron who has issued a directive as you know that the French population must remain under curfew for the next 15 days. If you would like to start or continue with English conversation lessons therefore, it will be strictly by telephone. I look forward to speaking with you, que même. I have noticed that I now have visitors from countries other than France including Germany, United Arab Emirites, Belgium, Spain and Oman. You are also welcomed to take English conversation with me if you like :) 

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