What does COVID-19 mean for the employability and resilience of vulnerable employees in facility services?

Cause In the coming decade, many jobs in facility services are expected to disappear due to automation and robotization. The recent COVID-19 crisis and the rise of the one-and-a-half-meter society have accelerated this development. Many of these employees fall into vulnerable groups (female, 55+, migration background, poorly educated). They are faced with a great distance from the labor market, which can have a negative effect on their subjective well-being. Results Through literature research and econometric analyses, (1) insight has been provided into which strategies can be used by organizations in the facility services sector to, in the short term, prepare employees for changes in the sector and support them to increase their economic and mental resilience and (2) provided insight into which jobs in facility services are most vulnerable to disappearing in the short term and where there are (career) opportunities for employees who are in danger of losing their jobs.