Os custos de reparar "janelas partidas"

Companies on the U.S. Gulf Coast that survived last year's devastating hurricanes face a dramatically smaller labor pool that has prompted more than a quarter to raise wages, said a study released on Wednesday.(...)
Nearly two-thirds of the companies said employee recruitment and retention was a problem, as the rash of powerful storms displaced thousands of residents and demolished housing for hundreds of miles (km) along the Gulf Coast.(...)
A third said they had trouble hiring employees, and a quarter said they had trouble keeping employees, it said. Thirty-nine percent of companies said they wanted to hire additional employees, the study showed.
The study reflected only those firms that survived the storms(...)
"These are the survivors," [Joseph Kilmartin, director of compensation at Salary.com] said. "There were probably tens of thousands of companies that got wiped out and probably will never come back. These were fairly large organizations that had deeper pockets, and they could rebuild."
Five percent of the companies reported the hurricanes triggered layoffs or furloughs. The survey defined furloughs as a job suspension with an understood date of return.
In companies that had layoffs, an average of 35 percent of staff lost their jobs.

[Yahoo]
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