Google advises all the site owners about the increase in searches of jobs related to work from home. Look at the current impact of COVID-19 on businesses, market, and employment there are lots of searches regarding work from home jobs. The main reason for advising site owners is to tell them to use remote job structured data markup.
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It is not a big thing in an increase in searches related to online jobs. With the current business closures and looking at the lockdown due to COVID-19, most of the people are looking for online jobs. However, email from Google surprise a lot looking at the humble concern of Google for job seekers. This may be the first time Google has done this.
Jump In ‘Work From Home’ Searches
As per the data collected from Google Trends, the increase in searches for ‘Work From Home’ started from the second week of March and by the end of the month, it was at the peak. It went all the way to 100 from 26.
The above image shows the increase in the search interest, however, it began to fall every week.
By the end of the April, search result came back to 39. It is a bit shocking that Google waited until now to share an increase in searches of ‘work from home’. Search interest is currently positioned at 48, which is at the highest position since the starting of April.
From the last 5 years, the search result has never touched 40 until the pandemic hit. It remained consistently between the range of 20-30.
Search Interest Data of Past 30 Days
It is found that the search interest rate is higher at the places where COVID-19 is at peak.
Mississippi, with the maximum positive cases in the whole country, the search result is at the peak. According to the data resident living at the places where COVID-19 is spreading at a very good speed or is already at the peak, are searching for the online to earn for living without going outside.