Labor & employment

There’s a large number of creative workers in the Netherlands that have a mixture of media, cultural heritage, experience in the arts, and creative business services that’s top working jobs.  A lot of employed workers do freelance aka “ independent professionals”(Hermes, 2017).

Multi-ethnic millennial business team - African businesswoman explaining budget : Stock Photo
Figure 10 business people

imports/ Exports

Goods being imported and top exports are refined petroleum, packaged medicaments, computers, and office machine parts (Klok, 2019).

Figure 11 Netherlands exports growth chart

Retailing( AFTER COVID-19)

The Netherlands has experienced a drop in its sales during covid-19, gardening and DIY sales decreased by 35% while other sectors in the retailing department decreased by 10% or even more. Other categories like groceries, beauty, and health haven’t suffered as much and remained stable in sales. Fashion and clothing experienced the most downturn, the retail sales in march 2020 was generously affected because of COVID-19 (Gelder, 2020).