Weekly Hourly Hiring Report 8/24/21
How COVID-19 is affecting hourly work
Weekly Hourly Hiring Report 8/24/21
Highlights
Overall jobs are up 80% compared to pre-pandemic norms, with 13% month over month growth and 81% year over year growth. Google searches for hourly jobs are down 5% year over year.
The U.S. gave full approval for use of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and partner BioNTech yesterday. This announcement was quickly followed by announcements from the Pentagon, Disney, the New York City school district and many private companies that they would begin requiring vaccinations. Biden is calling on more employers to follow.
Also in the news today, as covered by CNBC, Business Insider, USA Today and several other media outlets, is a report we released in partnership with Black Box Intelligence yesterday. We reported that full-service restaurants are operating with 6.2 fewer employees in the back of the house and 2.8 employees less in the front of the house than in 2019. Following are the four driving factors keeping restaurant workers on the sidelines and contributing to the staffing shortage in restaurants and many other industries.
Wages and benefits - Black Box Workforce Intelligence data reported that in Q2 2021, limited-service hourly wage increased by 10% year over year, the highest increase the industry has seen in years.
Childcare - In the second half of April, a US census survey found that nearly 1 million households had at least one adult who could not look for work because they needed to look after their children.
Opportunities in other industries - Many restaurant workers cited higher pay and the need for consistent schedules and income as their top reasons for leaving the restaurant industry.
Concerns about mental and physical health - In May, 78% of workers said their mental health had been negatively impacted in the past 12 months.
Dive into the 4 driving factors behind the staffing shortage and identify the key actions hourly employers can take.
Jobs
All industry data is from 3/2/20-8/24/21
Here are the latest job numbers by industry:
Quick service restaurant (QSR) jobs are down 20% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 2% month over month growth and 8% year over year growth.
Sit-down restaurant jobs are down 40% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing a 6% month over month decline and 11% year over year growth.
Warehouse and logistics jobs are up 267% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 40% month over month growth and a 491% year over year decline.
Retail jobs are down 1% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing a 5% month over month decline and 19% year over year growth.
Grocery jobs are up 82% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 4% month over month growth and 64% year over year growth.
Hospitality jobs are up 317% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing a 6% month over month decline and 364% year over year growth.
On demand jobs are up 198% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 27% month over month growth and 201% year over year growth.
Convenience store jobs are down 6% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 8% month over month growth and 9% year over year growth.
Healthcare jobs are up 121% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 13% month over month growth and 100% year over year growth.
Workers
Google searches for hourly jobs are down 5% year over year.
The bottom line
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