FWIW, in Germany, this increase has been masked by offering companies to pay a significant part of their staff salaries. So, the same authority that pays the unemployed pays the employed with the same ratio, e.g. 67% of the net if companies apply for a full pause, means the employee doesn't have to work at all.

In the peak of covid this authority paid 8M of 34M employed people next to 3 M unemployed people, so round about one third of all workers were "unemployed" for a period of time.