If a person generates an income then I think that is considered as employed (self employed) but indeed that during the beginning of the covid many people are switching online because they are either get removed from their jobs or they find it much safer than going outside and catching the disease.
I consider trading a job because it can make money, and it is true as you say, especially if someone can make money even though they work online or work from home, that is not unemployment because what is called unemployment is no income at all. And during the pandemic, many people were laid off so they turned to looking for work online, including me.
I know that not all people have the ability to do same so they are still looking forward to work in an offline job. The unemployment rate won't grow if there are no wars and covid viruses but both of these events can soon to subside so I believe that the unemployment rate will also get lesser especially now that the online business is booming.
Since the boom in online business, unemployment has decreased, this is proven because the Internet is a world that has no physical form but is real, and in which various human activities occur. Starting from buying and selling, interacting, to providing assistance, to becoming one of the largest economies in the world.