'No one wants to work anymore': Employers complaining about labour shortages may simply not be paying enough

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'No one wants to work anymore': Employers complaining about labour shortages may simply not be paying enough — via financialpost Work labourshortages

and the years around the COVID-19 pandemic when workers quit en masse, refused to return to offices and embraced self-employment the most in more than a decade. The latest United States jobs report provided only more evidence: the labour force participation rate fell to the lowest level this year, and many restaurants, hotels and other businesses are still struggling with painful staffing shortages.

, political scientist Paul Fairie of the University of Calgary, curated a collection of newspaper clippings from each decade decrying the death of the work ethic. While the last few years have their own unique characteristics — not the least of which includes a global pandemic — the thread captures the timelessness of the sentiment.

“You find a lot back in say, the 1870s. There was a recession in 1873 and there was a ‘vagabond scare,’ they called it at the time: People were hitting the road to avoid a working life and trying to sort of bum around the country,” he said. “Really what was happening is often these are migrant workers looking for work elsewhere, but in the public imagination at the time, there was this idea that there are people that just don’t want to work.

 

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