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Can someone explain why businesses can't find employees?
Vanity | June 22, 2022 | Bort (vanity)

Posted on 06/22/2022 5:48:32 AM PDT by bort

The "help-wanted" sections of newspapers and job sites are overloaded with small businesses begging for employees. Every fast-food restaurant you enter has help-wanted signs. There is an obvious employee shortage going on all around the country. Serious question: What is causing this issue? Gas prices and inflation are through the roof, which would suggest that even dead-beats would be forced to get jobs. Is there some sort of secret COVID payments still going out? I'm at a loss.


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To: cuban leaf
"Jack up the hourly rate and you’ll find more employees. Ultimately, that is what it comes down to."

Seems so simple yet some can't grasp that concept.

81 posted on 06/22/2022 6:34:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: bort

Yes. September is the last month for government rent assistance due to covid. But there is a clause for emergency assistance. Due to your circumstances, it can be extended. Most skate through without resistance. SNAP, WIC, Healthcare, and all of the government bennies you can get? Why work?


82 posted on 06/22/2022 6:36:16 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: euclid216
Most retail positions I have seen have three requirements:

Pass a drug test
Show up on time
Maintain a body temperature somewhere in the general area of 98.6

83 posted on 06/22/2022 6:36:18 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: Labyrinthos

What’s the logic behind not stating the compensation? The fundamental reason that people work is to be paid. I expect that a lot of people assume based on the lack of mention alone that the compensation is subpar, without contacting you to confirm whether they’re correct or not. In that sense wages might well be your problem.


84 posted on 06/22/2022 6:37:07 AM PDT by TheDandyMan
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To: dforest
Raising wages has been done and it did not work.

LOL!!! That is like saying the laws of supply and demand don't work.

If I offer $1,000/hr I will get labor. If I offer $1/hour I will not. The goal is to find the price point.

85 posted on 06/22/2022 6:37:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Bryan24; Vermont Lt
"Unemployment is at 3.9% (or close to that.) And you are wondering why businesses can’t find people? Because everyone is working already."

reply: "You need to check the labor participation rate."

I respectfully disagree with using the labor participation rate for discussions like that. That's calculated as:

people working + people looking for work
------------------------------------------------------(divided by)
people age 16 or older not incarcerated, on disability or in military

Basically if you're old as dirt you're still counted as part of the "labor force" (you increase the divisor in the equation). Nobody in their right mind expects my mother in her 80's to get out and find a job. But as long as she's alive and stays retired she reduces the "labor force participation rate". As long as the many, many baby boomers keep retiring we'll keep having an even lower "labor force participation rate".

So use that metric for things like determining if the SS system is stable (enough workers still working and contributing for the SS to keep making payments to retirees). That's a valid use of the "labor force participation rate", at least how the gubment calculates it. But it shouldn't be used as a barometer of a healthy economy or if it should be easy for employers to find employees.

86 posted on 06/22/2022 6:37:30 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: jagusafr

I should try that. Selling nude photos is a great idea. $15 to get one. $40 NOT to get one.


87 posted on 06/22/2022 6:38:01 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: janetjanet998

I retired at 54 I have enough money to live nicely on.

If some one wants me to come to worm for them. They better be willing to pay me more then I am making being retired.

I get offered jobs fairly often.

I tell them they can’t afford me.

They asked me how much I need I tell them.

It ends the conversation quickly.


88 posted on 06/22/2022 6:38:23 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: bort

bkmrk


89 posted on 06/22/2022 6:39:01 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: achilles2000
Then, the price mechanism will find the honest level of wages. Employers can’t compete for workers with higher wages when the government makes it too easy for people to stay unemployed through “benefits”. All that happens is employers’ products and services start becoming uncompetitively priced and profit margins get squeezed to the point of there being little reason to be in business.,

Those suppliers of services that are unwilling to pay the going rate for labor need to go out of business.

90 posted on 06/22/2022 6:39:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: JonPreston
last week and many of the restaurants were either closed or were short staffed because they are unwilling to pay the going rate for labor.

Fixed it.

91 posted on 06/22/2022 6:40:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: bort

For young people that typically do these jobs, owning or even renting a place of their own is out of each in most of the country even if they work themselves to death and kiss the manager’s boots daily. The days of kids buying cheap used cars/gas and having fun on a minimum wage salary are long gone.

Most of the people I see working these service jobs now are older people that probably need health insurance and supplement for their retirement.

College is now a path to extreme pointless debt unless they get one of the very few high paying jobs through family connections or are autist programmers.

Some tradies and especially owners make good money but not everyone has the physical and mental fortitude to effectively work in trades. If everyone did, those jobs would pay nothing too.

Why work if they see no benefit and everything fun is priced out of reach? They sit home and do activities that are nearly free like pirated video games and cartoons. Waiting to inherit their parent’s assets.


92 posted on 06/22/2022 6:41:31 AM PDT by varyouga ( )
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To: Magnatron
There’s some of that, but the real change are compensation expectations. We’ve trained an entire generation that they should expect ridiculous money for menial jobs. Companies could likely fill roles if they upped their wages — pure capitalism at work — but these wages are not realistic for the tasks being performed.

That is crazy talk. Borderline mentally ill or fascistic thinking, I can't decide which.

93 posted on 06/22/2022 6:43:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: janetjanet998

>>>I think many people in their mid 50’s to 60’s suddenly retired all at once during COVID and there wasn’t enough replacements plus with many handouts some don’t want to work<<<

I think you’re on to something!


94 posted on 06/22/2022 6:44:23 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: central_va

“Jack up the hourly rate and you’ll find more employees. Ultimately, that is what it comes down to.”
Seems so simple yet some can’t grasp that concept.


We grasp the concept. Depending on the business and what they are selling, and their profit margins in that business, they may not be able to just jack up the hourly rate paid to employees.


95 posted on 06/22/2022 6:45:54 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Tell It Right

Agreed. It establishes a trend line, but mostly worthless under the current formula.


96 posted on 06/22/2022 6:47:00 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: suthener

We send people with a GED and no specific skills to work for $15/hour. Two or three hours in, they leave without notifying anyone. Why? Maybe “It’s not for me.” or, “He disrespected me”, but at least the girlfriend works.


97 posted on 06/22/2022 6:47:14 AM PDT by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: JimBianchi11
Low wages and bad bosses.

That is a very large part of the problem.

98 posted on 06/22/2022 6:47:45 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: jagusafr

>>>According to my children, a lot of young people are selling nude photos of themselves online. Some are clearing six figures a month. I was speechless.<<<

Oh dear Lord!


99 posted on 06/22/2022 6:47:47 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Labyrinthos
Not a single applicant for either position. This suggests that wages, supply and demand may not be the issue since an applicant has no idea how much we are willing to pay.

As someone who has looked for a job in the past my take is since you DON'T say what the salary is for the position that eliminate you as someone I can deal with. Your ad reeks of "were a bunch of low balling a-holes".

See if it was a good position you would be offering good money and state that up front. Games games games....

100 posted on 06/22/2022 6:47:54 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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