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Fleeing to where? Are other industries paying better? Except for niches like tech, wages are stagnant across the board.
by tantalor 4y ago
Fleeing to where? Are other industries paying better? Except for niches like tech, wages are stagnant across the board.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoAmazon warehouses, mostly. It’s also a worker treatment shortage. They leave for somewhere with equally low wages but less nonsense to put up with.
- Zigurd 4y agoAmazon warehouses are no picnic, and their attrition numbers show it. But compared to industries that exploit immigrants and where wage theft is common, a warehouse job is objectively better. A lot of people don't understand how hard it is at the bottom of the labor force.
- pc86 4y agoHousekeeping/cleaning is pretty low wage regardless, and the pandemic gave a lot of people an opportunity to get new skills. Not saying they went into tech but almost any industry pays better. A lot probably also went into industry that pay comparatively the same but offer more flexibility in scheduling.
- fundad 4y agoCatering, retail, call “center” (often remote positions).
- VLM 4y agoRisk avoidance. Poor people can't economically handle "someone sneezed so you get no income for months". Plenty of low paying jobs never closed during covid and everyone's crowding into them to avoid possible economic disaster. Normally you fix lack of employees with higher pay, but low pay is baked into the cake they can't pay more and stay in business (which is the step right before going out of business, BTW).
- Mezzie 4y agoGig work is a big one. Gig work is taking a huge bite out of the lower-income + more physical service jobs. You still have no benefits and your pay sucks, but you at least can usually control your hours and you don't need to worry about being penalized/fired for getting sick/needing a few days to care for kids/etc.