“Businesses have been used to cheap, readily available labor because it’s been there for so long,' said Phil Dean, chief economist at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah. “I don’t think it’s coming back.”
Utahns don’t have to go far to see the effects of the labor shortage — from hiring signs in restaurants and gas stations to businesses still running on reduced hours.
And last week, Utah tied for the second lowest unemployment rate in the country, at 2.1%, according to new data from theUtahns are waiting in vain for things to go back to normal — “we are in a new normal,” Dean said. “Businesses have been used to cheap, readily available labor because it’s been there for so long,” he said, however, “I don’t think it’s coming back.”
One restaurant owner told her, she said, “before, we used to interview, check references, check their experience in the industry, and that’s who we would hire. Now we just hire based on whoever shows up.”
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