“They report skill shortages because they advertise at the wage they want to pay and offer no training, then unsurprisingly they can’t find people.”
LoadingMr Tindale said some employers were trying to snap back to pre-pandemic norms and get staff back in the office but workers were pushing back.
“In a survey of workers in Australia, at least 20 per cent of the respondents said they were either considering resigning or had resigned from a role if not offered flexibility,” he said.
Employees were barely changing jobs at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with many focused on retaining employment and adjusting to working from home. ABS job mobility figures released in July show 975,000 people, or 7.5 per cent of employed, changed jobs in the year to February 2021, the lowest annual job mobility rate on record.
