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> Raise prices and raise wages. They're doing that and adding benefits, too. From the article: > The Wacky Knacky Diner in Osage Beach, Mo., near the Lake of
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> Raise prices and raise wages.
They're doing that and adding benefits, too. From the article:
> The Wacky Knacky Diner in Osage Beach, Mo., near the Lake of the Ozarks, boosted wages to $20 an hour, then added health benefits and a retention bonus.
There's more to the article than businesses complaining that people won't take their jobs at fixed wages. It's about how businesses are adapting, raising wages, adding benefits, turning away customers, and management is taking advantage of the lull by taking their own vacations.
The article also highlights some of the temporary roadblocks to getting people back into the workforce will naturally go away in the next few months, such as parents who are home with children while school is out for summer:
> A survey by Indeed found most job-seekers plan to start working within the next three months, but many are waiting for schools to reopen, vaccination levels to rise or for their personal savings — boosted by unemployment benefits and three rounds of federal relief payments — to run out.