Key point: they pay too little or they don’t want to pay to stay 24/7. If your business can’t afford to give their employees a living wage then they aren’t a viable business.
No one wants to work for a school because you get paid so little cause you don’t work the whole year, but you’re also typically need to be open to work during your summer break. A local university that is none to have flat wages and pay very little pays their junior network admin 55k a year. A local high school had a network admin listing at 38k a year with 3 years experience. A network admin at most corporate jobs pay 70k. Shocker, people don’t want to work for half the normal salary
Local farms can’t hire people because it’s back breaking work that still wants to pay $8 an hour. As someone who worked on a horse stable with my roommate, the money is not worth it even us who wanted a physical job for extra exercise. How many people would want to follow a trailer in 95F heat, running to a 100lb hay bale, quickly powerclean throw the hay bale into the trailer that isn’t stopping. 6-8 hours of running and power cleaning for $8 an hour. That 1280 before tax, meanwhile the cheapest rent in the ghetto here is $1,000+ in the Midwest. I wonder why they struggle to keep people employed.
Grocery stores sent 24/7 because it’s extra costs. Even before Covid, stores were starting to go from 24/7 to closing at midnight. Covid was just an excuse to further shrink hours to save operating costs. You still have to get groceries and as long as every company holds the line and not go 24/7 again, then you won’t lose customers. Also theft is higher at night and closing early cuts theft down. There are several fast food places that easily stay open 24/7 here, and the grocery stores still have their stockers in starting at 11pm. Before At night all they had was 1 person at the self checkout. I’m sure at a store with several hundred employees can find one person to work an 8 shift a day.
Local manufacturers can’t keep people employed because most only want to pay $13-$15 and hour with barely any raises. UPS, FedEx, and Amazon hires the same pool of workers for $23+hr and it’s a very similarly job.