Retail workers have been harder hit than any other sector by the ‘pingdemic’ crisis seeing nearly 75,000 staff forced to self-isolate this month.
New data from FirstCare, the UK’s largest database of workplace absences, shows that the government’s list of 10,000 key workers to become exempt from COVID-19 self-isolation rules falls well short of solving the industry’s crisis.
According to the figures 74,292 staff across the consumer and retail sector are currently self-isolating representing around 2.88 per cent of the entire sector.
