American middle class gets hit with disappearing office jobs

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-04-22/-scary-time-for-american-middle-class-as-office-jobs-disappear

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Once Covid-19 hit, things went from bad to worse really quick,” said Simon, a father of two in Summerfield, North Carolina.

A marketing specialist with a sales-training company, Simon lost his job along with several colleagues on April 7 -– less than two weeks into a state-wide lockdown to counter the pandemic. He says many who survived the firm’s layoffs saw their pay cut by 10%.

That’s happening all over the country.

A tsunami of job losses, which began among workers in restaurants, hotels and factories, is now reaching the offices of white-collar America --- where analysts and engineers find themselves among the rapidly swelling ranks of the unemployed.

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Some of you really need to stop celebrating the job losses. Economies are interconnected in many ways across the public and private sphere. I've always been of the mindset that who cares where someone be works as long as they work.

The entire public vs private sector debate is juvenile for the simple fact that many private sector jobs aren't any better than there public counterparts. You have lazy workers and non productive elements in private companies. The difference is is usually a matter of scale and nepotism/indifference of the employer.

This isn't a stab at small businesses, but it is a wake-up call that nobody, regardless of work ethic, is safe.