“…However, the visual arts, publishing, and social media sectors faced considerable challenges and have demonstrated a lack of ability to cope with the current crisis (Cifuentes-Faura, 2020; Davies, 2020 ). By contrast, IT and software companies have benefited from the COVID-19 pandemic and experienced a surge in demand for their products and services ( Kamal, 2020 , Gabryelczyk, 2020 , Sheng et al, 2020 ).…”