Across the country, in industries ranging from delivery services to grocery stores, from pharmacies and makers of medical products to online-learning companies and cleaning services, businesses are scrambling for workers amid the rapidly changing demands of a society responding to the pandemic.
Even as state unemployment offices face a deluge of new claims from workers laid off from businesses sidelined by government restrictions on economic activity, these expanding firms are hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers, many for positions that require no previous experience-offering a glimmer of hope to those looking to get back to work as soon as possible.
One of New Jersey's largest grocery chains, ShopRite, with 145 locations around the state, is looking for 1,500 new workers.
In some places, Kroger, which employs 460,000 people overall, is directing its hiring efforts at workers laid off from other businesses.
INKSmith, which principally makes tech products for kids, 3-D printers, and virtual-reality headsets, has hired 100 new workers and is now making the face shields that health-care workers use.
Among the categories of workers filing the most claims were restaurant and bar employees and workers at personal-service firms like haircutters, salon workers, and dry cleaners.
These benefits, which can go above $1,000 a week in some states, will be a welcome relief to those out of work, but they may also be a disincentive to some of those laid off to get back into the workforce-and may consequently make it more difficult for firms trying to scale up hiring to find the people they need.
https://www.city-journal.org/companies-hiring-during-covid-19-crisis
Even as state unemployment offices face a deluge of new claims from workers laid off from businesses sidelined by government restrictions on economic activity, these expanding firms are hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers, many for positions that require no previous experience-offering a glimmer of hope to those looking to get back to work as soon as possible.
One of New Jersey's largest grocery chains, ShopRite, with 145 locations around the state, is looking for 1,500 new workers.
In some places, Kroger, which employs 460,000 people overall, is directing its hiring efforts at workers laid off from other businesses.
INKSmith, which principally makes tech products for kids, 3-D printers, and virtual-reality headsets, has hired 100 new workers and is now making the face shields that health-care workers use.
Among the categories of workers filing the most claims were restaurant and bar employees and workers at personal-service firms like haircutters, salon workers, and dry cleaners.
These benefits, which can go above $1,000 a week in some states, will be a welcome relief to those out of work, but they may also be a disincentive to some of those laid off to get back into the workforce-and may consequently make it more difficult for firms trying to scale up hiring to find the people they need.
https://www.city-journal.org/companies-hiring-during-covid-19-crisis
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