Betriebliche Weiterbildung in der Covid-19-Krise

The upward trend in-company further training was interrupted by the Great Recession of 2008 / 09 but subsequently recovered. During the Covid-19-Pandemic, however, training measures carried out by companies were hit even harder. The examination of the IAB-Establishment Panel 2020 in this article reveals that the provision of further training decreased by 20 percentage points in comparison to the previous year and reached only 35 percent, the lowest level for more than 20 years. Also, no recovery is registered for in-company further training activities in the year 2021. Additional insights are offered by the high-frequency IAB-survey “Establishments during the Covid-19-crisis”. This survey provides information about the incidence of further training, reasons for cancelling training measures and the development of e-learning. The multivariate analyses demonstrate that in-company training activities during the current crisis are affected by industry affiliation, firm size, the institutional framework of further training and how hard the establishment has been hit by the crisis.