Not sure I completely follow that. Basically, "I can't find people to hire, so I'm losing business, but my competition has a full staff and they will manage to lure my customers away." How does that work? Maybe it's about wages?
And if you are doing well the covid Nazis will make sure you dont
It’s ALLL about wages. I still get emails of IT places offering $11/hr. Nobody’s going to want to take that. No sympathy for these cheapasses.
People will call to schedule service. If one service is full, they keep calling around until they find someone with an opening.
As I have told many in my niche though...raise your rates. People who offer ‘services only’ for whatever reason are loathe to raise rates on existing clients.
I know Karen Levy in the article who runs the pet sitting/dog walking business. Dog walking is a volume based business model. The business has to turn a certain volume in order to be profitable and pay decent wages. If the business is understaffed it is losing money. Notice, I said pay decent wages. Most pet sitting companies right now are offering $12-15 per visit plus tips/bonuses. Price of dog walks is $20 for a 20 minute walk. Walker needs to do a minimum of 2 walks per hour. That’s a wage of $24-$30 per hour. Plus tips! Puppy kisses and fresh air. But the model is based on volume. If people won’t walk dogs for 24-30 per hour they are losing money.
Right; one of my children left a crappy restaurant job after a year because the boss was incompetent (and the minimum wage here in NJ is $12/hour). The place was just run poorly, and how many times can you ask students with homework and school the next day to stay for another 6-hour shift because crappy workers don’t show up? A security guard friend described the same exact dynamic (and reason for leaving); there are too few WASPs left in NJ to do jobs right (full disclosure: I’m not a WASP).
1.7 million are already here, be patient, it’s a supply chain issue. Wages only have to go up if you need the supply now. We aborted the localvsupply....of customers too.
Maybe it’s about wages?
Yeah here in Los Angeles business have to a $15.00 minimum wage dish washer and alike at small businesses have caused the shut down of many businesses.
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