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The financial and job-related outlooks of state and local government employees have been widely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, a new survey shows, with examples ranging from employees suffering negative financial impacts in their lives to having difficulty adjusting to how the pandemic has forced their job circumstances to change.
Fifty-six percent of the 1,008 state and local government employees surveyed across the nation said that they and their family's finances have been "negatively" impacted by the pandemic, according to a June-issued report by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence on the survey's results. Meanwhile, 47% of the employees expect the pandemic's financial impact to worsen over the next year, according to the report.
Sixty-three percent of the employees surveyed said it has been difficult adjusting to COVID-19-forced changes in the "nature" of their jobs, such as what they do, where they work, or how they go about the tasks required, the report said.
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Jason Grant
Jason Grant is a staff writer covering legal stories and cases for the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal and Law.com, and a former practicing attorney. He's written and reported previously for the New York Times, the Star-Ledger, the L.A. Times and other publications. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter, pls find him @JasonBarrGrant
