Businesses across the state have their Help Wanted signs up, and respondents to the Carolina Across 100 survey confirm that it’s a pressing issue: Nearly 80% of the total sample put employment and staffing concerns among the top three negative effects of COVID-19 on their organizations.
Chief Economist Gerald Cohen writes that COVID has played its part in the hiring problems but that other economic and demographic factors are in play. Data provides a mixed picture of what might lie ahead. Click here to read the full blog post.