One year after the COVID-19 crisis: the impact on WISEs

Following its 2020 work on the COVID-19 crisis impact on Work integration social enterprises (WISEs), ENSIE launched a new study on to evaluate the effects of the crisis on WISEs one year after. 

In the following document you can also find the 2021 Impact-WISEs study showcasing the role of WISEs. 

Those studies highlights that one year after the crisis hit, there are still some difficulties faced by WISEs notably in terms of challenges to recruit people or the customers’ reluctance to use WISEs services. Nevertheless, WISEs have been innovative in their approaches to overcome the crisis and expand their offer through distance trainings development, launching home delivery services, using ITC to reach clients, build networks and redirect their activity. The workload was high for WISEs in Austria for instance where the employees reported to have worked long hours and were close to burnouts. It is thus important to underline that innovation need appropriate funding, staff and resources – during the pandemic more than ever.

Analysis on WISEs and COVID-19

We updated, thanks to our members, our data on WISEs and COVID-19 and analysed the results. We also presented numerous good practices from WISEs all over Europe which have faced the Coronavirus crisis with innovating practices.

Grâce à nos membres, nous avons mis à jour nos données sur les entreprises sociales d’insertion et le COVID-19. C’est aussi une opportunité pour nos de présenter les bonnes pratiques venant de toute l’Europe d’ESI ayant fait face au coronavirus en développant des pratiques innovantes!