A survey was carried out by jobs.ie.
More than 60% of employees in Ireland are concerned about the future stability of their jobs, due to the uncertainty caused by Covid-19.
The figures come from a survey conducted by Jobs.ie of almost 700 people, which found 66% of employees are worried about the impact of the virus on their job
While over 70% are not confident that the changes to their job because of the pandemic will be ever be reversed.
Mary Connaughton, the director of HR body CIPD Ireland told Newstalk Breakfast: "You do need to pro-actively communicate with people - so regardless of what's going to happen in the future to communicate to show some empathy and to show that you recognise actually that people are concerned and are worried.
"But that's about being open and transparent about what's going to happen, we're not saying that they should create false expectations.
"And then they should really put well-being first in terms of what can you do to support the well-being of people to make sure that they're actually staying health in the environment that they're working in.
"And then when it does come down to who can come back first, again be transparent: look at what are the critical roles that you need to take back and tell people what's going to happen".
"We're also saying that we know some people won't want immediately to come back into the workplace and be flexible in dealing with those particular situations - some people will have childcare issues, some people will be worried about transport".
"And really then when they are going to be things like extended lay-off or redundancy, again it is about communicating and being as open and honest as that".
