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Let's talk for a moment about how the press - often the financial press - has framed this issue. 1/? https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1391838085877575681
It is very easy to snap a photo of an all caps complaint on a door about the workers not working and get a quote from a business owner who has established profit margins in his or her menu and leaves actual compensation up to the patrons
All the while mask wearing and vaccination rates leave something to be desired.
It is more difficult to talk about living wages (though smart people have run the numbers), the cost of daycare or elder care, etc.
It is more difficult to talk about living wages (though smart people have run the numbers), the cost of daycare or elder care, etc.
But when employment numbers missed projections by 74% (lol, economists) far too many ran with the story that service workers don't want to work.
Temporary workers (layoffs) and manufacturing (supply chain) accounted for hundreds of thousands of job losses.
Temporary workers (layoffs) and manufacturing (supply chain) accounted for hundreds of thousands of job losses.
There were those that dove into the data. But for the ones that didn't, please do not take a talking point that is 1. Anecdotal and 2. Totally biased by self-interest (menu profit margins) as Gospel.
One final clue is that is some manager or owner is printing out a complaint on an 8x11 piece of paper that he or she can't find employees than maybe they are also a small part of the problem. Fin.
