Holidays bring a need for labour

Double duty: Some hotel staff from other departments are doing housekeeping to provide back-up to cope with the worker shortage.

GEORGE TOWN: With many workers leaving for reunions after two years apart from family, businesses are feeling the strain due to labour shortage.

This desperation for workers, compounded by the fact that fresh intakes of foreign workers have been stifled by the pandemic, seem to mirror what economists termed as “The Great Resignation”.