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It's interesting that when labor costs shoot up (and let's be honest, that's what this is, you can get people to take those jobs if you pay enough) it's a 'shor
by mullingitover 5y ago
It's interesting that when labor costs shoot up (and let's be honest, that's what this is, you can get people to take those jobs if you pay enough) it's a 'shortage,' but we don't really call skyrocketing medical costs a 'medicine shortage' or skyrocketing rents and home prices a 'housing shortage.'
- frankydp 5y agoThey literally call high rents and prices "affordable housing shortages".
- jackson1442 5y agoMaybe we should take a hint from the modifier here and call it a "cheap labor shortage."
- frankydp 5y agoMore accurately an entry level labor shortage.
- 29083011397778 5y agoPer TFA: > Low wages are the most common reason people cite for leaving food service work. But in one recent survey, more than half of hospitality workers who've quit said no amount of pay would get them to return. Note that over half of survey respondents directly refute your claim of "Just pay more". Paying more will get some people in, but having your restaurant half or three-quarters staffed is still an unenviable position.
- mullingitover 5y ago> more than half of hospitality workers who've quit So this is only sampling existing workers who've quit, not potential workers who would enter the market for the right wages.