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Advanced services, which are high-value added and high quality specialised services whose main resource is knowledge, are crucial for the competitive positioning of companies and regions and played a crucial role in overcoming the health and economic crisis. Despite their importance, however, employment in this sector initially took a knock, registering 50% fewer affiliated workers in April 2020 than in 2019, yet figures did begin to pick up in May (General Treasury of the Social Security, 2021). In the first year of pandemic and within the advanced services sector, research activities, consulting and computer programming saw their affiliate numbers grow by 3.1%, 2.8% and 2.7%, respectively (Figures on Average Affiliation to the Social Security system, General Treasury of the Social Security, 2021). The urgency of medical and pharmaceutical research and the need for companies to adapt to a new context defined by home office, the electronic provision of services and a sudden increase in the demand for computer security go a long way to explaining this positive trend.
{{ANETextoAsociado|titulo=Actividad notarialActivity of notaries public|contenido=Declarado el estado de alarma Activity of notaries public registered a mediados de marzo de remarkable drop, with notaries only attending to urgent matters during the initial weeks of the state of alarm (second half of March, April and May 2020). Three indicators may illustrate the impact on their operations. The amount of mortgages signed in March, la actividad April and May 2020 fell by 50.1% compared to the same period in the previous year (it shall be noted that most of the operations carried out were for mortgages that had already been granted prior to the pandemic and could not be delayed without serious penalties for the client). The decrease in notarial registró un significativo descenso en las primeras semanasacts related to inheritance was even more pronounced, manteniéndose el servicio solo para atender asuntos urgenteswith the deeds signed in 2020 amounting to just 30.9% of those signed in the same period of 2019. And finally, the deeds executed to grant general powers of attorney in March, April and May 2020 amounted to just 26.9% of those executed in the same period in 2019.
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