Impact of Covid-19 on Employee's Job in UK Hospitality Sector: A Study on Hilton

Research Proposal

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background.............................................................................................................................1
Rationale.................................................................................................................................2
Research methodology...........................................................................................................2
Gantt chart..............................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

Title: To investigate the impact of Covid-19 on employee’s job in the context of UK hospitality
sector: A study on Hilton
Background
In the current times, Covid-19 affected the entire business operations adversely. Due to
this, business activities and performance of hospitality sector is affected the most. UK
hospitality industry is marked as third biggest employer which provides range of employment
opportunities (Brown. and Cowling 2021). However, pandemic created direct impact upon the
job of employees which includes salary cut down, reverse impact on talent pool and majority of
employees become jobless. For the current proposal Hilton has been selected which provide
luxurious and high quality accommodation services to their customers. In this, proposal will
shed light on the effect that pandemic having on employee’s job level within hospitality
industry. Further, it also highlights the research tool and technique that can be used by
researcher to analyse issue effectively.
According to the views of Jung, Jung and Yoon (2021), the labour trend of UK hospitality
sector is fluctuating after pandemic. The hospitality industry contributes majorly in relation to
providing employment opportunities. Nevertheless, after pandemic it is the only sector where
most of the employees become jobless. Aguiar-Quintana and et.al., (2021) also identified in their
study that there is negative impact upon those individuals who have a lowest income. Therefore,
it is examined that there is such a rapid fall in employment where around 7.6 million jobs are at
risk in terms of reduction in salaries, temporary furloughs etc (Khan and et.al., 2021).
Chen and Eyoun (2021) presented their views that the effect of pandemic upon
hospitality sector is negative because of travel restriction most of the employees do not come to
their respective workplaces and then companies fire their employees. On the others side, Yu,
Park and Hyun (2021) also argued that due to sudden loss of jobs, existing employees gets
demotivated that also affect performance. Further, it shows that there is an adverse impact upon
the employee’s job and this also affect their behaviour as well. Apart from this, 1.25 billion
workers are employed within hospitality sector but with low paid and low skilled jobs which is
considered as a sudden loss of income (Covid-19 causes devastating losses in working hours and
employment, 2021).
Yue and Cowling (2021) explained in their study that most of the hospitality companies
deduct employee’s salary and increase working hours after pandemic, along with frequent job
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