IMPORTANCE OF ICTS, TELEWORK, ROLE OF COVID-19 AND E-COMMERCE IN MEXICO

Advances in ICT have made online education more important in the national education system. In terms of teleworking, the Federal Labor Law was modified on January 11, 2021, which highlights that the employer must cover costs proportional to the electricity and internet service used by workers. In eleven months (from March 1, 2020 to January 31, 2021) nearly 800 thousand formal jobs of IMSS contributors were lost, by October 2021 only 36 thousand jobs remained to be covered from that loss. In Mexico, due to COVID-19 in 2020, the GDP contracted 8.3%, recovering 5% by 2021. In the relationship between electronic commerce and GDP, Mexico presents 2.7% as of October 2021, the same percentage as Brazil, with countries such as Chile, Peru, Argentina and Colombia above; The United States and Canada present positions above our nation in 2.2 and 1.5 times more, respectively. In Mexico, five economic activities generated 24,560 million dollars through electronic commerce operations in 2020: (travel-accommodation, electronics, fashion-beauty, toys-hobbies, and furnitureappliances).