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Thread #170478   Message #4123406
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
18-Oct-21 - 10:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Whats your shortage- is it hype? Supply chain
Subject: RE: BS: Whats your shortage- is it hype? Supply chain
There is a shift in employment at many levels of the working world. As reported in The Atlantic, since spring of 2020 a number of industries are seeing not just people leave because they become ill from COVID-19, but because they have better offers with conditions and wages improved. The Great Resignation Is Accelerating

“Quits,” as the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls them, are rising in almost every industry. For those in leisure and hospitality, especially, the workplace must feel like one giant revolving door. Nearly 7 percent of employees in the “accommodations and food services” sector left their job in August. That means one in 14 hotel clerks, restaurant servers, and barbacks said sayonara in a single month. Thanks to several pandemic-relief checks, a rent moratorium, and student-loan forgiveness, everybody, particularly if they are young and have a low income, has more freedom to quit jobs they hate and hop to something else.