Again, it’s not a staffing shortage, it’s an entire population fleeing an industry due to a pay shortage
But this family will go on continuing to pay poverty-level wages for a brutal and thankless job convinced that other people are just lazy.
As the article pointed out, people are getting more educated and they're able to sniff out opportunity elsewhere. Jobs like housecleaning don't have a trajectory and possibly can't (though I'm open for refute).
I was in Vegas last month and they were advertising something like $12-13/hr for hotel cleaning jobs. In Vegas! Bonkers.
A lot of people don't understand how hard it is at the bottom of the labor force.
A lot probably also went into industry that pay comparatively the same but offer more flexibility in scheduling.
Normally you fix lack of employees with higher pay, but low pay is baked into the cake they can't pay more and stay in business (which is the step right before going out of business, BTW).
How many customers of the hospitality industry prioritize either cleaning staff pay, or how perfectly the room was cleaned, when they are looking at their options for a hotel and deciding who'll get their money?
Reasonable Assumption: Hotel management knows the answer, and makes their decisions accordingly.
(I don’t care for intermediate cleanings when I stay, just at the beginning personally).