Letter.

 Letter Published in The National UAE on 4March 21Providing jobs will be one of the biggest challenges going forward

I write in reference to Rashmee Roshan Lall's article Jobs after Covid-19: business not as usual (March 1): it is no exaggeration to say that the pandemic has changed the world in very fundamental ways. Even as vaccines are being disseminated and administered around the globe and economies are picking up again, people are losing their jobs. It is likely that the post-pandemic recovery will be for just a minority of people. Technology was already making many jobs redundant, now Covid-19 has hastened that process. Millions of people being unemployed cannot be good for anyone, not for the economy, not for government, and, most importantly, not for those out of work. The public and private sectors should come together as quickly as possible to find solutions.

K Ragavan, Bengaluru