During the pandemic, two overlapping groups of employees have been facing great pressure on the job and at home: women and deskless workers. Women, as well as people of color, are over-proportionately represented among the essential workers pressed to keep working during the pandemic. And these employees are often caregivers, as well.
Deskless workers are employees who “typically don’t sit behind a desk to perform their jobs,” as defined by Mike Morini, CEO of WorkForce Software. Tied to a physical workplace, they constitute 80 percent of workers across the globe and nearly 100 percent of shift workers in a wide range of industries, including health care, retail, manufacturing and transportation.
