Small Businesses To Find Enough Workers

  • 07-May-2022
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Hiring and retaining employees remains the top challenge for small businesses, according to a survey of 1,100 businesses by Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Voices out last week. Ninety percent of businesses that are hiring are finding it difficult to recruit qualified candidates for open positions.
Some small businesses are still struggling to hire qualified workers, even as Americans return to the U.S. job market in droves. 
Many in the industry faced burnout after being on the front lines during two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Rob Wilson, president of human resources provider Employco. Some who stayed in the industry switched to larger restaurants where wages might be higher. Others left and looked into new opportunities.
'There’s nobody to hire, there’s nobody out there looking for jobs,' said Anesh Bodasing, who opened Tiffin Box, a fast-casual Indian restaurant in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2019 with 20 staffers.
Last year in April 2021, Bodasing temporarily opened a second location in a food hall. But then the staffing shortage began to hit home.
 

'Your standard of employee went down and pay you’re paying people went up. From an employers’ standpoint, that’s the wrong equation,' he said.
Bodasing shuttered the food hall stall and is down to three staffers at the West Palm Beach location. He is considering changing the business to use less staffers.
'Let’s assume the employment shortage is not going to change,' Bodasing said. 'You can sit around and struggle or pivot and change the business in a way that will get us ahead even during the shortage.'
 

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