I see it all the time now:
- We are hiring, and
- People don’t want to work
Covid-19 has been a wake-up call for people who work shitty jobs for shitty pay. It’s like an awakening, it’s realizing that life is short and you don’t want to spend it working under sub-human conditions.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has been the catalyst for a variety of huge changes in the labor market, including a drastic decrease in women participating as a result of lacking access to childcare and major retailers like Amazon hoovering up available workers with higher wage minimums.
Some workers simply say they’ve had enough of being overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated during a particularly stressful moment. Rage quitting has become more common after 15 months of life with the coronavirus. And that’s all before we start talking about long-term trends in worker wages, which have been on the decline for years.
“Instead of no one wants to work anymore,” former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich said, “Try no one wants to be exploited anymore.”
Instead of: no one wants to work anymore. Try: no one wants to be exploited anymore.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) May 12, 2021
It’s not that people don’t want to work, they just don’t want to work shitty hours, at a shitty job, for shitty pay.
It’s interesting to see that as soon as an employer offers better pay, like Amazon ($15h +), employees all of a sudden want to stick around.
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