Staffing challenges in certain industries seem unavoidable for the foreseeable future. There currently aren’t enough nurses, teachers, hospitality workers or truck drivers to keep those businesses functioning as designed. The inflation that’s currently plaguing the global economy is one of the unavoidable outcomes.
Amazon, for example, found itself in an embarrassing situation in June when an internal memo leaked that projected the company might exhaust its pool of available warehouse employees by 2024. The report warned Amazon might run out of workers in the Phoenix metro area by the end of 2021 and in the suburbs outside Los Angeles by the end of 2022. Amazon calculated the future labor supply based on characteristics like income and household proximity to current or planned Amazon facilities.
