Lessons from the Pandemic

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There are many lessons for PES to learn from the pandemic. Digital skills have improved as PES staff across Europe learnt to work from home; the reputation of many PES has improved with jobseekers and employers; rapid coordination with governments was essential to establish crisis management, so across Europe PES can build on this. PESPod was lucky enough to be able to speak to Maarten Camps, Head of the Dutch PES, and how he worked from home on a Sunday afternoon with the government Minister devising a scheme that within a few days helped millions of people newly unemployed as a result of Covid. Once again, Johannes Kopf, Head of the Austrian PES and the PES Network, was able to draw lessons from different experiences across the PES Network. He believes the nature of the PES office will change after the pandemic, it will be more a place where you can have meetings (with no pets or children running across the back of screens!) while staff continue to work from home a few days a week.

Find out more about Maarten Camps and the dutch PES here.

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