The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to wipe out 6.7 percent of working hours globally in the second quarter of this year, equivalent to the labor of 195 million full-time workers, the International Labor Organization said on Tuesday.
More than four out of five people in the global workforce live in places hit by full or partial workplace closures, it said in a report on the "worsening crisis with devastating effects" on the world of work.
It urged countries to take steps to keep people connected to jobs they are no longer able to do, so that fewer of them will end up unemployed.