According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the number of unemployed people will reach a new high in 2023, with more than 6 million young people unemployed!As the end of the year approaches, a wave of unemployment has swept across various industries, with large companies laying off thousands of workers, factories closing down, and arrears of wages. Tens of thousands of jobs are disappearing, and countless employees and families are struggling. The wave of unemployment is even more terrible than imagined!There are four key industries that have particularly large numbers of unemployed, see if there are you?
Electronics manufacturingOnce upon a time, the electronics factory once became the first choice for rural people to work in the city, as long as they could get a good salary as long as they were hard-working, but now the electronics manufacturing industry is facing an unprecedented dilemma. With the continuous updating and upgrading of technology, competition at home and abroad has intensified, many manual jobs are being ruthlessly eliminated, and robots and automation technology are rapidly replacing manual labor。From Foxconn's large-scale layoffs of more than 300,000 people in order to reduce labor costs, we can see the tip of the iceberg of this change. The laid-off workers of the 90s still had the opportunity to transform, choosing to go to private factories or compete for jobs. In today's era of artificial intelligence, where should machines go from here?
Brick-and-mortar retail
The manufacturing industry is the source of supply of products, and the retail industry is the consumption port. With the development of short-term e-commerce and live streaming, the new retail model driven by technology has had a subversive impact on the traditional retail industry。In the past three years, more than 400,000 brick-and-mortar stores have been closed across the country. Even the veteran retailers Gome and Suning have experienced an unprecedented existential crisis. A large number of jobs have been lost or even disappeared, which means that millions of retail workers are unemployed.
Traditional retail must embrace change, digital transformation, and innovationto adapt to market changes and changes in consumer demand.
Construction industryIn 2023, the construction industry has encountered unprecedented difficulties. Evergrande, Sunac, Kaisa ......One real estate giant after another has fallen. This industry, which has created countless multi-millionaires, has changed overnight. The construction industry is an important pillar of China's economy and one of the main channels for absorbing migrant workers。Over the past 20 years, the industry has provided a large number of jobs, including skilled trades, management positions, engineering bosses, contractors and construction workers. In recent years, with the trend of negative population growth in China, the demand of the real estate market has gradually decreased, resulting in the number and scale of construction projects shrinkingMore and more construction industry practitioners have felt that it is difficult to find projects, find jobs, and make money this year. Migrant workers who are disadvantaged in terms of establishment, social security, and skills are more likely to find other suitable jobs after losing their jobs.
CateringThe black swan of the epidemic has almost dealt a critical blow to the global economy, and the catering industry has been severely impacted. Although it has picked up now, the era of dividends of the savage growth of the catering industry has disappeared. Young people are the main group of food and beverage consumption. With unemployment rising and spending power declining, young people are competing to see who can save more. The cost of ingredients, manpower, and rent is rising, which makes the catering staff breathless。In addition, with the advent of the era of artificial intelligence, the implementation of unmanned restaurants, prefabricated dishes, etc., stir-frying, cooking are replaced by robots, and personnel recruitment is also decreasing. In the wave of unemployment, the number of laid-off workers in the catering industry cannot be ignored. The economy is in a downturn, consumption power is declining, and costs are under heavy pressure ......This is a difficult problem that every restaurant person has to face.
The chill is approaching, and no one can escape the cycle. For many people, being laid off means not only losing their jobs, but also losing the direction of their lives. But just as there is no winter that will not end and no spring that will not come, we must have the confidence to follow the general direction, adjust ourselves, and survive with courage and wisdomLike the little attention of this article!