Staffing shortage impacting hotel industry | FOX 13 Seattle

Despite raising the wages of employees after the pandemic, the hotel industry is facing a severe staffing shortage.
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[@dlicious5677]

They were paying me $16.50 an hour 🙄

[@UrbanSipfly]

Who wants to work at some hotel during summertime 👀 🤔?

[@Charles-d4e3b]

Plenty of multi millionaires. Just buy the city and close it up

[@deanakalberg4540]

Corporate Greed and inflation!

[@urbanesasquatch]

hey news cheesecake: how much for the robot vacuum that doesn't do corners or tight spaces well?

[@ihmpall]

They fired them during Covid

[@jewelpeters294]

R u going to hire people that can't speak English.

[@gawd4582]

Ugh. I thought this would be a hyper-local report.

[@santosdr2]

guess you need better incentive for employees to come work for you. You've got supply in customers yet can't meeet the demand due to not having enough supply of employees, Suppose you satisfy their "demand" since they are temporary jobs which in of itself isn't that appealing since majority of thee year you won't be keeping them employed so no job security. Then they will be in limbo status on how to pay rent, their bills. Seasonal salary job, witha 5 year contract where pay increase with cost of living. and have bonus incentives. This can get you retention. Give someone who likes that kind of work environment some peace of mind that they will be employeed next season.

[@jamescole3152]

Just think how hard it is to find someone to mow your yard help with some plywood for the roof. It seems to me the govt. printed so much money that there is an oversupply. So workers for the last 15 don't know what hard times are. The govt. was handing out money right and left. But now we have the inflation. At least until the excess dollars are taken out of the economy. Higher interest rates are here so it is just a matter of time. Give it another 6 months.

[@VinceYoutubr]

I hope you are enjoying that pay hike! Lol

[@Mr.Happy7ODSubscribe]

I make 15 an hr as security in az Minimum wage staff unite The government has long abandoned us, the higher paid look at us with disgust. The red white and blue caste system

[@stevenotero2627]

So why cant management help vlean the rooms ?? Is it beneath them to do more than just complain ?? Seems so

[@stevensnarr8957]

In America, we treat maids or people that clean for a living like dirt. We look down at them. We treat them like they’re not even in the room. We walked up and take things from them or give them trash without even considering them out of work they’re doing. so that’s why people don’t wanna apply for the job. Stop treating people that work with their hands like shit!😮

[@jamescole3152]

Nonsense. They work to get a paycheck like everyone.