There Were More Jobs in Del Norte Than People Looking For Work in June
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Shaun Hartman noticed a shift between how employers relate to their employees toward the end of last summer.
Attrition is common in food service, says Hartman, one of the owners of CC Diner and Ice Cream in Crescent City. The high school and college students who worked during the summer return to their studies in the fall, but workers were leaving food service to work at places like Walmart. This, Hartman said, forced him to ask why.
“During COVID, people began to re-think their relationship to their workplace because the government started sending out these checks to homes these economic stimulus checks,” he told the Wild Rivers Outpost on Thursday. “I know what that’s like to have a windfall of money you immediately begin to look at things you’re doing very differently.”