if staff are leaving for lack of meaning, there may be a related factor. pandemic policy wiped out an entire layer of the economy, where the only bars and resta

if staff are leaving for lack of meaning, there may be a related factor. pandemic policy wiped out an entire layer of the economy, where the only bars and restaurants that survived were polarized between well capitalized franchises and absolute bottom of the barrel money laundering operations, and the part of the service business that was cool and desirable where people wanted to work- and was a source of local belonging and meaning for staff- all went out of business. those businesses were culture. the people working in indie cafes were not the people working at starbucks, and the people at the fashionable neighbourhood restaurant didn't move to a chain or sports bar, they just left the industry. people who can afford to leave do, and the ones that remain aren't the people owners want to grow a business with. there are some other elephants in the room that mckinsey is paid so very well to talk around, but even their view comes down to the reason people aren't working in service roles is because there has ceased to be opportunity and dignity in them. between the general class of recently appointed managers and the increasing social desperation of potential employees, closing all those independent businesses and flooding cities with desperate people has caused the bottom to drop out of the middle class and, yeah, the people you thought wanted to work for you are getting the f' out of dodge.