Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on employment in e-commerce in France in 2020

The e-commerce business has been on the rise in the past years, due to the gradual digitization of every day activities. Many marketers have forecasted the growth of e-commerce, and with the coronavirus outbreak, issues with proximity shopping have led to a strong acceleration of that said development. Thus, the source had asked online retailers as well as pure players in France in March 2020 what the current employment situation in their company was. Around 82 percent of companies practiced home office, 66 percent had resorted to partial unemployment, 22 percent had closed some sites and 14 percent said they were affected by absenteeism.