Covid smashes the work of 219,000 self-employed in a year

(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 17 - Between the second quarter of 2019 and that of this year, out of 841,000 jobs lost, 219,000 were those of the self-employed, a sector "which went from 5.4 to 5.1 million employees (-4, 1%) ". For 79% of professionals, in the dark months of the Covid emergency (April and May), revenues fell, but for 35.8% the decline was "over 50%". Labor consultants write them in a research released this morning. The greatest losses, in absolute terms, are registered among small business entrepreneurs (71,000 fewer employees, with a decrease of 7.1%), but also in the world of highly qualified intellectual and technical professions, which leave 31,000 on the ground respectively. (-3%) and 39,000 (-4%) workers, for a total of about 70,000 professionals who thus went 'up in smoke'. (HANDLE).