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Anecdotally from talking to a lot of people who are hiring, people who accept the going rates for work are having no problem hiring. People who are shocked at w
by dkarl 5y ago
Anecdotally from talking to a lot of people who are hiring, people who accept the going rates for work are having no problem hiring. People who are shocked at what workers can ask for right now and try to resist the change are having very little success hiring, whether it's software engineers or subcontractors or lab assistants.
With service workers, resistance to paying what it takes has a compounding effect, because being short-staffed forces people to pick up the slack for missing coworkers, and they end up burning out and quitting, or leaving for another job where the wages are better and the stress is lower.
- fundad 5y agoDemand for better pay and conditions has been bubbling for a long time, the Fight for Fifteen has been going on since $15/hr was a livable wage and then the mass layoffs of 2020 radicalized workers. And business owners are pissed. Bernie Sanders ran 2 presidential campaigns and got a lot of airtime for worker power. And layoffs screw people over for short-term gain and then incur more costs when staffing up again. It is an embarrassing place to be in so businesses jump on the narrative of a great resignation.
- rustybelt 5y agoAnecdotally, the 2020 pandemic response by employers has had an huge impact on employee attitudes and loyalty. I work in healthcare and my employer made the very poor choice to do layoffs and furloughs in the summer of 2020 due to depressed demand before COVID surged in our area. This soured the relationship with staff just as we were about to get hit hard that fall and we've struggled to keep up ever since.