Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
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Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#2Honestly, I think this is good for Tahoe in the long run. The NIMBYs who constantly block development are getting a taste of their own medicine. When they’re finally fed up with the low staff and poor service they’ll see the need for affordable housing.
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#3This is becoming a problem in many areas, and I can't imagine that the push for remote work is going to help the situation any.
Unless you are living with parents, or with multiple roommates, the housing market in these cities will price you out.
We have this same scenario taking place in the area I live, and NIMBY/zoning laws prevent affordable housing from being developed. I've been to town hall meetings where people decry "affordable housing" as bringing Section 8 and "undesirables" to the area. You mention that even the local school teachers have to commute in from over an hour away due to afford a place to live, but it falls on deaf ears.
If the local residents are wealthy enough to live in the area, perhaps businesses have to bite the bullet, raise prices locally, and pay more for essential services like bartenders, wait staff, retail, etc.
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#4I know this article is about Tahoe and paints a rather bleak picture...but this is nationwide. I traveled most of the east coast over the past few months, and every single city's service sectors are begging for employees. I've never seen so many fastfood places closed. And not like, boarded up, but appearing operational but having zero employees. And most weren't high cost of living areas...
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#5Honestly, I think this is good for Tahoe in the long run. The NIMBYs who constantly block development are getting a taste of their own medicine. When they’re finally fed up with the low staff and poor service they’ll see the need for affordable housing.
When the elephants fight the grass gets trampled.
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#6Perhaps consider paying people more.
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#7https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/14166485497820241...
> Las Vegas gas stations are running out of gas because there aren't enough truck drivers to bring the gas here.
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#8I know this article is about Tahoe and paints a rather bleak picture...but this is nationwide. I traveled most of the east coast over the past few months, and every single city's service sectors are begging for employees. I've never seen so many fastfood places closed. And not like, boarded up, but appearing operational but having zero employees. And most weren't high cost of living areas...
I took a weekend trip to Ocean Shores Washington last weekend, and…the restaurants were all packed and wanting of long waits due to lack of servers and cooks. Resorts towns have been hit really hard, but this might also have to do with them laying off all of their staff at the start of the pandemic. Did they just expect these people to wait around?
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#9> “But you know, every other week, someone loses their housing and I have to fill up the position again.”
Naive view here, but isn't this an indication that the job is not paying enough for the location?
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#10Is it possible a reason behind the lack of people is also that a ton of our essential workers (aka service people) have died during the pandemic? Seriously, line cooks was one of the most fatal job positions during this time…