Lenco Armored Vehicles will host a community open house from 4 to 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at its plant in the Stearnsville Industrial Park on West Housatonic Street
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With Colorado’s unemployment rate of 6.4%, most would think recruiting talent would be easy, but for businesses like restaurants and lodging properties, that’s not the case.
Take the Dillon Dam Brewery as an example. In an email last week, General Manager Kim Nix said she’s very concerned about finding enough employees to serve a 5,600-square-foot guest area as the county tries to reach level green metrics and eliminate capacity restrictions.
“As we get to open more and more, I am very concerned with staffing,” Nix wrote. “We just are not getting the amount of applications in that we used to. I am hopeful that as things open back up more people will want to move here and will be looking for jobs. But with the rent prices so high, most are having trouble finding places to live.