3 In 10 Small Businesses Have Automated Jobs Amid Nationwide Worker Shortage
A recent poll reveals that three in ten small businesses are leveraging technology to deal with worker shortages.
Enhanced unemployment benefits — passed as a response to COVID-19 and the lockdown-induced recession, and extended by President Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan — delayed many workers’ return to the job market.
A Morning Consult survey determined that rather than returning to work, at least 1.8 million Americans have rejected job offers to continue collecting the $300-per-week handouts — despite a record number of job openings in the United States.
In the month preceding the benefits’ nationwide expiration on September 6, however, another Morning Consult poll indicates that small businesses have attempted to replace workers through automation. The Small Business Recovery Survey — which surveyed 608 small to midsize businesses between August 5 and August 16 — found that roughly three in ten have turned to automation – READ MORE
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