Automating functions isn’t always aimed at reducing staff, but it helps when human workers are harder to find.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Shortage of ed techs an emergency across Maine
Our public schools have already had to sound the alarm way too many times.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Another summer tourism season shows value of good workers
Hospitality businesses are competing for workers from a limited pool. The ones that win will be the best position to thrive.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Every effort must be made not to sideline skilled workers
Lots of factors make the workforce crisis stubborn. In 2022, credential recognition should not be one of them.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Where have all the workers gone? And when will they return?
Short answer: Most of them won’t. The past two years have upended the job market and created a vast labor shortage. It won’t improve anytime soon.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Stubborn labor market challenge calls for a little tenderness
In this unprecedented workforce crunch, it’s better for the customer to be patient than to be right.
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Maine’s unemployment rate heads toward record low
The state’s jobless rate hits the lowest point since the start of the pandemic and nears record lows set three years ago.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: I’m working in my jammies, and I’m just fine
Mounting concern for remote workers’ health and well-being rings hollow.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Debate begins early over raising Portland’s minimum wage to $18
Voters will likely be asked in November if they want to increase the city’s minimum wage, which at $13 an hour is already above the statewide minimum and on its way to $15 in 2024.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Economist: May decline in Maine’s workforce likely a seasonal blip
The state lost 2,900 jobs in May, probably the outcome of a changeover in the seasonal workforce from winter recreation to summer tourism.