Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?

Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by ipaddr on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:49AM (#28018103)

It is.. it speaks to wages not raising enough to meet the demand. You wouldn't need the Yankees a lot of people would do it for a million, half a million, 100,000 pounds.

There always seems to be a shortage of people willing to work for little never a shortage of people wanting the CEO's jobs

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by treis on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:48PM (#28020199)

>It is.. it speaks to wages not raising enough to meet the demand.

That doesn't really cover the current situation. In the US 7 million or so fewer people are employed than pre-covid. Wages haven't gone down so they can't explain the change.

Something else has changed for these 7 million people.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by username90 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:47AM (#28019144)

There is definitely a shortage of decent CEO's, which is why companies are forced to hire and try to work with the charlatans they have today. That is also why the salaries are increasing, they try to get one of the few good ones.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by ipaddr on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:16PM (#28020426)

There is a huge supply of people who want to be CEOS so much in fact most places will not hire you unless you have been a CEO before or have risen through external ranks.

If you take what unemployment defines are qualification.. many able body people could perform those tasks if all CEOs decided to move to other careers.

Salaries increase because qualifications increase creating scarcity which benefit the people who create scarcity. If the hiring guidelines say only CEOs can be CEO prices goes up for CEOs, VPs and anyone in charge of making the rules.

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