Workers Don’t Want Their Old Jobs on the Old Terms

And yet no employer wants to offer full-time or stable part-time hours.

This is really the hitch.

Once you've set up to deal with not being employed, why bother coming back for an unstable, shitty job?

Anecdotally: working low end hospitality has become shittier. It seems like a lot of the nice customers are still infrequent and mostly staying home, while the selfish customers are going out (quelle surprise). Quite a few restaurants I frequent have stories about needing to call the police for patrons assaulting the waitstaff when they never needed to pre-pandemic.

This piece addresses (and provides data to refute) the common claim that increased unemployment benefits are the source of worker hesitancy.

But it doesn't address eviction moratoriums, which to me seem like they could be a pretty significant driver of this phenomenon. If you've been able to just stop paying rent, I would think the need to work is heavily diminished (or rather, other government benefits that would never be sufficient on their own can be stretched to cover all non-rent expenses).

No idea the scale here; haven't found anything more recent than https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/nearly-20percent-of-renters-...

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