Employee Shortage Getting Dire on Oregon Coast
Published 05/06/21 at 7:35 PM PDT
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff
(Oregon Coast) – With all the changing COVID restrictions, closures, reopenings and resultant uncertainty in the travel industry, one thing that Oregon coast s hotel and food sectors can count on is a lack of employees.
Oregon s tourism-based beach towns have long been in various degrees of hurt when it comes to staffing because of a lack of affordable housing on the coast. This year s pandemic roller coaster ride has simply made it worse. All of the state s tourism industry is aching in some way when it comes to staffing, but on the Oregon coast it s dire.