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BRACE YOURSELF FOR A MASS EXODUS OF EMPLOYEES
Restaurant Business ^ | Oct. 07, 2021 | Peter Romeo

Posted on 10/12/2021 10:12:50 AM PDT by george76

More than half the wage earners currently working in the hospitality business are planning to quit by Jan. 1, according to new research..

Restaurants struggling to hold onto their employees are about to hit by a major setback, according to new research.

A survey of 13,659 wage earners by the online job marketplace Joblist revealed that 58% of restaurant and hotel employees intend to quit their jobs by the end of the year, stoking what the researchers have dubbed The Great Resignation.

If the pattern set by earlier quitters persists, a fourth of the workers will leave the hospitality industry for good.

The employees who intend to bail are in addition to the 16% of industry respondents who indicated they’re already no longer working.

The overall driver is the individuals’ dwindling satisfaction with their positions, the study found. The proportion of workers turned off by their hospitality jobs has doubled during the pandemic to a third of the labor force, compared with the 15% who said they were dissatisfied before the coronavirus crisis.

The percentage who said they’re satisfied with their positions dropped to 42%, from a pre-pandemic benchmark of 64%.

“Such extreme levels of employee dissatisfaction will likely lead to a wave of resignations in the near future,” the Joblist study states. “This is a strong signal that the labor shortage affecting the hospitality industry might get worse before it gets better, as increased turnover exacerbates an already difficult hiring environment for employers.”

Among the 25% of former hospitality workers who said they’re done with restaurants, bars and hotels, the leading source of their dissatisfaction was low pay (cited by 56%). The other most frequent triggers for departures were a desire for a new career (50%), a lack of benefits (39%), difficult customers (38%), long hours and rigid schedules (34%) and potential exposure to coronavirus (23%).

The exodus is also being fueled by a desire for more education. Eleven percent of the respondents said they’ve already gone back to school or enrolled in a training program as a prelude to a new career, and more than a quarter said they’re thinking of pursuing that route.

Some good news..

The findings suggested that employers are far from helpless. Across all fields of employment, about a third of job hunters said they would reconsider quitting their current positions if the employer addressed just some sources of their dissatisfaction.

In addition, Joblist said that all employers should benefit from the reopening of schools for in-classroom learning. About 40% of the respondents said their work lives were impacted by the need to participate in their children’s remote learning.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brace; employees; employment; exodus; jobs; mandates; mask; maskmandates; masksmandates; retailsucks; vaxmandates; yourself
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To: billyboy15

Here at the retirement village, we hired a few young guys for outdoor work - yes, including cutting the grass. We offer $15 an hour, 2 weeks vacation after one year, regular hours, a 401K plan, and a Christmas bonus. You don’t have to deal with the public, and we don’t micromanage like Amazon.

We raided grocery stores instead of restaurants, but the principle is pretty much the same. We got some nice young guys who are somewhat lacking in academic skills, but they can drive trucks and cut grass OK.


41 posted on 10/12/2021 11:32:37 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Mr. Rabbit

Add in COVID bennies and former two income homes have not suffered a standard of living change in becoming a one income home.


42 posted on 10/12/2021 11:35:54 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Millions of kids want to clean up the Earth. Millions of parents want them to start with their rooms)
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To: george76

They are entry-level jobs and people are moving beyond that.
This is a great thing.


43 posted on 10/12/2021 11:46:49 AM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback for how the election & Covid was handled.)
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To: Mr. Rabbit
Could it be that a lot of two income households became one income households, and decided they liked that better? Once you add up commuting, child care, clothing, and other work related costs, a low paying McJob becomes a lot less “worth it”.

I witness that and retirements of people who could have retired years ago but had stayed working up until the COVID nonsense started.

44 posted on 10/12/2021 11:50:07 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: JoSixChip

So people with IQ’s less than 100 should kill themselves when they reach 30?


45 posted on 10/12/2021 11:50:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: blam
My local ‘home-style’ restaurant is already operating at reduced days open due to lack of employees willing to work for the arbitrarily set wages being offered.

Fixed it.

46 posted on 10/12/2021 11:51:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: hanamizu

Simple if you want employees then PAY MORE FOR THEM.


47 posted on 10/12/2021 11:52:37 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: cgbg
As a result the employers cannot afford to pay the higher wages.

That statement makes no senses. It should be "employers cannot afford to NOT pay the higher wages".

48 posted on 10/12/2021 11:55:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: gitmo
They all say it’s because they can’t hire anyone.

Or unwilling to pay the prevailing wages to get employees. F them all.

49 posted on 10/12/2021 11:56:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

We went through this with the inflation in the 1970s.

Employers got stuck between a rock and a hard place, and many had to go out of business regardless of which choice they made.

Classic heads you lose, tails you lose—pick one.


50 posted on 10/12/2021 12:02:42 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: george76

Good. Less spit in the food.


51 posted on 10/12/2021 12:05:50 PM PDT by moovova (I'm dismayed that most of the world hates me for being non-vaxxed. Honest. No, really.)
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To: george76

It’s like Obama’s chief of staff said never let a crisis go to waste.


52 posted on 10/12/2021 12:17:29 PM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: cgbg

BS. If materials go up in price they pay. But if labor goes up 10% the have to close? BS. They have tons of cash from years of underpaying and overcharging and are riding out the “crises”.


53 posted on 10/12/2021 12:18:40 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
years of underpaying and overcharging

Sounding off like a true over the hill virtue signaling has been woke hippy.

54 posted on 10/12/2021 12:26:56 PM PDT by New Perspective (#NotMyPresident -Proud father of a son with DS & fighting to keep him off biden's death panels.)
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To: Mygirlsmom

“We take so much for granted...being able to travel and eat out will be distant memories and luxuries that only happen on rare occasions”

We could travel to Panem and watch the elite at play.


55 posted on 10/12/2021 12:27:03 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (I got the shot. Not because I wanted to. Because I had to, in violation of my civil rights.)
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To: central_va
So people with IQ’s less than 100 should kill themselves when they reach 30?

I don't believe I even insinuated such a thing. If you're just looking for a fight, come back later tonight after I've had a couple of beers. Maybe then I'll be more accommodating.
56 posted on 10/12/2021 12:27:14 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: cgbg

. . . and the modern Jimmy Carter no longer has to worry about being voted out of office because those who cast the votes decide nothing and those who count them decide everything.


57 posted on 10/12/2021 12:32:29 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: george76

Just in time for the massive ill eagle caravans.


58 posted on 10/12/2021 12:35:41 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: george76

Have we reached ‘PEAK VACCINATION’ yet?


59 posted on 10/12/2021 12:36:54 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Norseman

We had a young women show up for her first day of work.
The next two days she called in to say she had a “family emergency”.
She came in day four.
Day five was another “family emergency”

They told do not bother coming back.

One of the other employees said it was just a way to go back on unemployment benefits.


60 posted on 10/12/2021 12:43:31 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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