Businesses ready to get back to work; workers, not so much
Service, construction, other industries finding it hard to fill vacancies
Restaurateur John Bean is a few workers short. Check that. He’s about a few hundred workers short.
John Bean
“We’re short-staffed and actively looking,” said Bean, whose Eat With Us group operates 14 restaurants in the state, including seven in the Golden Triangle. “We’re doing things we’ve never done before. We’re doing advertising for workers on TV and trying to get in touch with employees who worked with us before. We just can’t find them.”