Kenya has recorded a 58 per cent drop in the number of jobs advertised since the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in the country on March 13, the latest BrighterMonday statistics show. According to the BrigherMonday CEO Emmanuel Mutuma, there has been a drop in the number of jobs advertised on BrighterMonday and other job aggregators as Covid-19 took hold and lockdown measures were implemented. “Many positions in the travel and hospitality sectors were frozen in the first weeks when the virus hit Kenya. Other sectors soon followed with most companies laying off their employees and others sending them on unpaid leave,” he adds. According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), over one million people in Kenya lost their jobs due to companies closing or businesses downsizing to survive the economic downturn brought about by the pandemic.

Source: The Star July 25, 2020 11:26 UTC