Restaurants in Berlin opened after multi-month coronavirus constraints, but the owners of the institutions faced a new problem – a certain customer returned customers, writes Financial Times.
Representatives of the Berlin establishments told the newspaper that workers have to search through social networks and advertising blogs. The lack of employees affects the plans of hotels, restaurants and bars throughout Europe, and therefore economic growth, which was expected against the background of vaccination and removal of restrictions, turns out to be threatened. They were previously faced with similar problems in other countries of the world: in the US and Israel they were associated with the fact that people reluctantly returned to work, and British bars lost staff due to the departure of employees after Brequit.
Restaurateurs in Germany, in turn, explain the problems with the working force of various reasons – departure of migrants against the background of a pandemic, concern about possible new locked and frustrations about working conditions. Some employees went to those companies that against the background of coronavirus, on the contrary, succeeded – in Amazon or in retail chains. The total number of people employed in German hotels and restaurants decreased from 2.4 million employees to a pandemic to about two million, indicate the local industry data.
At the same time, the number of unemployed in the EU after the beginning of the pandemic increased to 15.5 million people. However, according to Economist Allianz Catarina Utermel (Katharina Utermöhl), the hospitality sector in the foreseeable future will continue to experience problems with the staff due to the uncertainty of the situation with coronavirus.
Bloomberg has already been reported on the shortage of labor force in the European Union. The EU report for December 2020 recorded a lack of personnel in construction, design, software development and health care.
The Russian economy, in turn, was also under threat due to lack of migrants. Press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov recognized that now foreign workers are not enough to develop the economy. The head of the federal execution service Alexander Kalashnikov, in turn, suggested more actively to use instead of labor of migrants the work of prisoners.