Yesterday, my local public bus 'empire' (here in Wiesbaden) announced that they've got serious manpower problems and starting Monday....will be going to a Saturday 'lesser' schedule for Monday-through-Friday. Chief reasons? Covid, sick-leave in general, a number of rank-and-file drivers who've quit in the last month.
To run their entire operation (293k in population), they have 750 bus drivers....to run a 5 AM to midnight routine.
What the Saturday schedule business equals? About 70-percent of a normal work-day schedule, so it's a big deal.
Starting just when kids go back to school? Yeah, that came up and shocked people.
But it's the same problem as you have for grocery clerks, bartenders, and various jobs in the region....just not enough folks to saddle-up to jobs. You could go and probably dump another 3,000 people into the local area....and have them all employed within six weeks easily.
The funny thing? Covid has barely started a trendline back up to where it was in March.
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