One of the many ways in which the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the workforce is that it has intensified job seekers’ needs to target positions at big, established companies instead of smaller ones—largely because of the potential for greater job security In fact, researchers from Harvard Business School found that the average size of firms searched by candidates increased by 25% during the economic crisis, and that these candidates are 20% more likely to search for firms with more than 500 employees after the crisis read more