While losing a job is a pretty unpleasant disruption to one’s life, it can also be the case that the next job will be better and one ought to (in hindsight) hav

While losing a job is a pretty unpleasant disruption to one’s life, it can also be the case that the next job will be better and one ought to (in hindsight) have changed jobs sooner. Potentially the shake-up of employment in low-productivity sectors was also good for the economy (and in hindsight I think this strategy worked better than subsidising people in their current jobs, ie furlough, which is what many other countries did).