Even as millions of Americans who lost their jobs to the COVID-19 pandemic have returned to work, companies nationwide report they're still struggling to hire employees in recent months.
NEW YORK - To keep the taps at his recently opened beer tasting room flowing, Peter Chekijian had no choice but to ask his main employees to come in seven days per-week.
More than 10 million jobs were unfilled as of the end of August, according to government data. The labor force participation rate, which measures the US economy's active workforce, was 61.6 percent in September, compared to 63.3 percent before the pandemic. With "so many employers trying to hire so many people at the same time, it creates that imbalance," said Aaron Sojourner, an economist at the University of Minnesota.
"It's been shockingly slow," he said. "It's definitely affecting what we're trying to do in terms of growing our business." "There is a massive competition for talent at all levels, there is an absolute war," she said in an interview.GXO is particularly short on material handlers and forklift operators, and has paid for billboards and social media advertisements and organized job fairs to attract applications.
"Offering very good burritos in the mornings, it sounds silly, but things like that really motivate people," Hammond said.
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