Much of it isn’t laziness. Do you know how difficult it is to find a job?
Today it’s insane.
And unemployment insurance pays a whopping $295/week, only for 12 weeks. You read that right, it’s enough to cover food and that’s it.
I have LinkedIn premium and there can be over 100 applicants to a job less than a minute after it’s posted.
I’ve applied to jobs paying $16/hr to $230k/year and after 7 months crickets.
I have too much and too little experience having being in the workforce for half a century.
Employers are absolutely ridiculous in their demands.
Employers are absolutely ridiculous in their demands.
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That’s what I’ve been hearing in the recent years, at family reunions from the younger people in the family. The days of showing up at an employer and wanting an application & job, is now met with “go online” or “here’s a temp agency number.”
This needs to change if capital is serious about having and training a labor force for the future.