Carlos
Soto, owner of a floral service called Flowers From Our Heart, had an
unexpected problem on the busiest day of the year: He had to turn down
business on Valentine’s Day because he couldn’t find enough workers to
field all the orders he could have taken.
“A
year or two ago, I’d put an ad on Craigslist and get 100 or 150 resumes
for a few positions,” says Soto, whose Los Angeles-based service
delivers flowers through a network of 30,000 local shops. “This year, I
placed several ads and got very few people. I could have used another
six people. I would have been able to take more orders.”
With
the U.S. economy in its ninth year of expansion, employers are fretting
about a problem that seemed unimaginable just a few years ago, in the
aftermath of mass layoffs and the Great Recession: a shortage of
workers, from unskilled laborers needed to hammer nails to programmers
and developers able to build complex software. The unemployment rate is a
low 4.1% and probably headed below 4% at some point this year. The
Labor Department says there are nearly 6 million unfilled jobs in the U.S. economy, close to a record high.
Source: Yahoo News
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