ABSTRACT
In 1959, the sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that meteoric macro-structural societal changes would leave multitudes insecure in their societal roles. Since the first quarter of 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic (WHO, 2020) has touched every corner of the world, leaving death, grief, unemployment, changing work practices and uncertain futures. [...]we discuss our findings in relation to our research question, and we propose a future research agenda, drawing on our empirical and literature reviews. Calls have been made to scrutinise the career-related experiences of globally mobile populations more closely across different units of analysis (Collings et al., 2021;Crowley-Henry, et al., 2019;Gunasekara, et al., 2021), focusing on contextualised careers research (Mayrhofer, Smale, Briscoe, Dickmann and Parry, 2020), over time and circumstance (Gunz and Mayrhofer, 2018) in order to better understand divergent, convergent and/ or crossvergent career trajectories. [...]the topic of global mobility during COVID-19 is ripe for scholarly research and analysis. [...]mothers were found to reduce job-related working hours by 20-50% or four to five times more than fathers of children (Collins, Landivar, Ruppanner and Scarborough, 2021). [...]it appears that women and their work are disproportionately affected by the pandemic.