StevenFM
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Interessante analyse:Slabbakt de amerikaanse motor?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/07/jobs-report-april-2021.html
ondanks het eindeloos bijprinten. Mij lijkt momenteel dat enkel de beurzen ervan profiteren.
Analysis: It’s not a ‘labor shortage.’ It’s a massive reassessment of work in America.
Hiring was much weaker than expected in April. Wall Street thinks it’s a blip, but there could be a much deeper re-think going on of what jobs are needed and what workers want to do on a daily basis.
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But another way to look at this is there is a great re-assessment going on in the U.S. economy. It’s happening on a lot of different levels. At the most basic level, people are still hesitant to return to work until they are fully vaccinated and their children are back in school and daycare full-time. For example, all the job gains in April went to men. The number of women employed or looking for work fell by 64,000, a reminder that childcare issues are still in play.
There is also growing evidence - both anecdotal and in surveys - that a lot of people want to do something different with their lives than they did before the pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak has had a dramatic psychological effect on workers, and people are re-assessing what they want to do and how they want to work, whether in an office, at home or some hybrid combination.
A Pew Research Center survey early this year found that 66 percent of the unemployed had “seriously considered” changing their field of work, a far greater percentage than during the Great Recession. People who used to work in restaurants or travel are finding higher-paying jobs in warehouses or real estate, for example. Or they want to a job that is more stable and less likely to be exposed to the coronavirus -- or any other deadly virus down the road. Consider that grocery stores shed over 49,000 workers in April and nursing care facilities lost nearly 20,000.
Ik kan me bv. voorstellen dat obers niet staan te springen om terug aan het werk te gaan voor $2 per uur. Zij moeten hun geld uit tips halen maar de restaurantsector draait allesbehalve op het normale activiteitsniveau.