06/30/2021

How the COVID Pandemic Reshaped the Job Market

The job market has changed irrevocably

There's a problem at James Hook's chicken farms, and it has nothing to do with poultry.

P.D. Hook, a hatchery that supplies one third of the chickens sold in the United Kingdom, should be humming along as the economy roars back to life. But the company is short about 40 farm workers, double the usual number of vacancies.

At the same time, there's a severe deficit of truck drivers, making it difficult for P.D. Hook to transport its birds to the factories where they are cut, portioned and packed. And when the chickens do arrive, there's a shortage of staff at the processing plants, too.

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