Premium Content  Tens of thousands of jobs are going begging across the state with businesses still reeling from COVID-19 struggling to fill the vacancies - impacting bottom lines and employers mental health. In what s been dubbed one of the hardest challenges employers have had to tackle since the pandemic struck, Queensland currently has the highest number of job advertisements since just before the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. Desperate sectors have called for the Commonwealth to extend its working holiday maker visa, while others are pushing for an expansion of the program that s offered to seasonal workers from the Pacific Islands.