Alot of the employment assumptions is that people only go back to their prior job. But good service employees might just have gotten another service job with benefits. Restaurants don't have benefits, and most want medical benefits which is discounted with employment. Restaurant management is notoriously poorly skilled, and service jobs are not a career position, so the workforce is very transient. The pandemic enabled the good employers to turn over their workforce with quality motivated employees, able to get rid of the less productive, without any legal consequences. . . This turnover changed the available employees for the lowest skilled employees . . . . to a lower quality . .
yes, my daughter worked two jobs throughout the pandemic when she could, and quit her restaurant job for a lower paying jobs with benefits. . . so no sympathy for employers who think that their former employees are going to come back just because they should when they run a crappy business with no benefits. . .
the world is a bit more complex than just the simple "they don't want to work due to unemployment." The inability to evict dead beats is more of the reason why people aren't paying rent so they don't need to work, and are putting off the inevitable, living in the moment. . .
economics guy
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