Employed in Times of Corona (February/March 2021)

The Corona crisis (COVID-19) and the accompanying measures are hitting some companies and their employees hard. Against this backdrop, the survey conducted by the opinion research institute Kantar in February 2021 examines the personal situation and working conditions of employed people in Germany in times of Corona. The analysis builds on a survey conducted in May 2020.<br>1. importance of work: importance (ranking) of areas of life (family/ partnership, job and work, leisure, recreation and sport, friends and acquaintances, religion and church, politics and public life, (further) education, club work and voluntary work); importance of job (vocation vs. securing livelihood); change in importance of work; importance (ranking) of various work characteristics (e.g. income/security etc.); value of individual occupational groups.

2. Personal situation: change in working hours during the Corona crisis; current work situation (local focus of own work); number of days in home office; preference for home office; preference for future home office; preference for hybrid work model; advantages and disadvantages of home office; financial losses due to the Corona crisis or expectation of financial losses; expected financial situation in one year; worries due to the Corona crisis in personal areas; strength of support from employer during the Corona crisis.

3. Economy and welfare state: political interest; agreement with various statements on the balance of values in the Corona crisis; assessment of the measures taken so far by the federal government against the economic consequences of the Corona crisis; perception of state action in the Corona crisis (e.g. bureaucratic - non-bureaucratic, passive - active, etc.); competence of the state to provide financial support to businesses; competence of the state to provide financial support to private individuals; preferred recipient of state financial aid; assessment of bureaucracy in state financial aid.

4. Measures: awareness of current federal financial assistance measures; assessment of current financial assistance measures; use of financial assistance measures; type of assistance measures used; barriers to use of assistance; assessment of effectiveness of crisis management measures in terms of economic consequences; appropriate additional measures (open); concerns about consequences of measures in terms of economic consequences.

5. Information: information seeking about financial aid measures; awareness of financial aid measures; information gaps about financial aid measures; sources of information used about financial aid offers.

Demography: age; sex; formal education; employment; self-placement in social class; net household income; assessment of current household income; assessment of household income before the crisis; occupation; membership of system-relevant professions; size of company; number of persons in household; number of children under 18 in household; city size; party affiliation; migration background.

Additionally coded were: serial number; federal state; weighting factor.