labor shortage
Not enough employees
A labor shortage is a situation where employers cannot find enough workers to fill available jobs.
The shortage may affect an entire economy or specific industries: The tech sector faces a chronic labor shortage, Post-pandemic labor shortages drove wages up.
Whether a shortage reflects too few workers or unattractive wages and conditions is often debated.
- workforceAll available workers
- hiringGiving someone work
- workersPeople doing jobs
- jobsPositions of employment
- understaffedInsufficient employees for workload
now hiring · job openings · wages · minimum wage · recruitment · temp agency · burnout · overtime · skeleton crew · help wanted · turnover · employers · vacancies · immigrants · automation · gig · retiring · applicants
- shortages
- Labor Shortagesstaffing crisis, understaffing, vacancy rate
- economyGDP, money, inflation, inflation rate, GNP
- laborwork, laborers, workers, hard work, employment
- workforceworkers, employee, employees, employer, worker
- Black Deathbubonic plague, Black Death, plague doctors, buboes, Yersinia pestis
labor shortageunemployment
Being without paid work
joblessness · job scarcity · underemployment · layoffs · redundancies
labor shortageoverstaffing
Surplus of workers
full employment · redundancy · hiring freeze · job scarcity · overemployment
labor, shortage, laborer, labors, labored, laboring, laborious, laboriously, collaborate