There were 819,000 fewer workers on UK company payrolls in November than at the start of the pandemic, official figures show.
Hospitality was the worst hit sector, accounting for a third of the job losses, followed by retail, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The unemployment rate rose to 4.9% in the three months to October, with the jobless total up to 1.7 million people.
And redundancies hit a record high over the period.
Hospitality has been particularly badly hit by coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions, resulting in large numbers of workers losing their jobs.
Bars and restaurants in England had to shut throughout November, and thousands based in areas covered by tier three rules remain closed.
The industry will suffer even more when London, a hive of hospitality firms, enters tier three on Wednesday.
"We can see the hospitality sector has really struggled during the pandemic," the ONS's director of economic statistics, Darren Morgan, told the Today programme.
"It you look at the number of people losing their jobs, the number of people on furlough and the vacancies available for people looking for jobs in the hospitality sector, all that adds up to a very difficult time for that industry."
The jobs numbers are again grim over the course of the pandemic with 819,000 fewer employees on payrolls since February, and a record rise in redundancies in the three months to October.
However without extension of the furlough scheme they would have been even more concerning. The official headline unemployment rate is up only a little at 4.9%. But for most of October it was above 5%.
These numbers reflect mainly the period before the second national lockdown. And for the first time they are broken down by industry. Well over half of the lost employees during the pandemic have been in hospitality and retail, 456,837 out of 819,000. Health and social care have seen an extra 74,342 jobs.
While some optimism has emerged from the prospect of a functioning vaccine, the next few months are likely to remain very challenging, with unemployment continuing to rise. Those rises continue to be contained by the furlough scheme.
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