'It's everywhere' labor shortage plaguing every industry

The labor shortage is very real according to officials. And they said it isn't just one field, it's across the board.

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[shenshen]

There is no labor shortage. It’s just the lack of good pay.

[Macnutkauai]

It's the high rents, no more hard working locals. Only rich tech and real estate sales people and their tvr's. Why pay a mortgage on a home for an out of state owner?

[Golgibaby]

A quality of life and being able to address foundational needs are the bare minimum, let alone a realistic dream of a capacity to thrive. Younger generations are wising up to the disillusionment of the status quo continually bemoaning the same saturation and exploitation. Sentimentality and empty rhetoric can only take you so far when you have children to feed and the grass is literally greener due to a greater ecology of jobs and opportunities and not a desert of the same traffic and facade of touristic superficiality. Make Hawaii livable again.

[null]

There is no labor shortage, there is a shortage of good compensated work. Why would someone decide to work and still be behind on everything? If the game is rigged the only winning move is to not play. These companies are thinking its 2002 and try to pay trash wages, 100k in 2000 equates to 300k in 2024 in Hawaii

[sierrasherman]

Nobody wants to work for 13-15 an hour . Can’t even pay for gas with that !!!

[blue]

i know of nurses that got laid off from Kapolei & Honolulu during the pandemic by HMSA, because the CEOs wanted to save their bigger paycheck. Some of my friends changed fields & never went back. 😂 HMSA

[kellykolii]

The seeds that the state planted is growning… thank you👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[hansolo]

There are many mainlanders are moving to Hawaii to retire. The retirees don’t work but require services which require employees.

[claudiaonh]

I’m on vacation right now and in and out pays $25 starting

[gavinlew]

Everyone wants to be a live streamer, YouTube content creator and twitch streamer travelling and enjoying while getting paid.

[cmane]

Yup, locals leaving plus those who left during the pandemic

[jasonking]

Who can afford to live there
Move to Joplin Missouri
Lots of work Cheap 👍

[jonl]

Well when you give everyone free money and pay off student loans..why do they want or have to work?!

[ThumbdownMan]

The answer is let everybody work part time on their own schedule. A lot of people can't work full time, so they don't work at all. Even seniors can work for just 1 hour a day if you let them. And A.I. can handle all the scheduling tasks for tracking all the multitude of part timers. Problem solved.

[Golgibaby]

Although, A.I. may very well be the only thing that remains functional in an ecological job desert. Perhaps the ultimate return on investment is in the infallible, autonomous, all complying, all non critical thinking, algorithmic reliable A.I. Can A.I. replicate the humanizing "aloha spirit"? Or does the future no longer place humanizing, humanistic, social interpersonal dynamics as valuable than raising a working force army of robots?

[roythousand]

The only incentive that matters is how much you are willing to pay your workers. If the job requires a degree or specialized training, then it should compensate the employee for obtaining that degree and/or specialized training. Stop paying skilled workers like their burger flippers at McDonald's!

[hawaiiramsfan]

Menu items make more money than employees 😆 🤣 😂

[xmeijox]

The labor shortage is happening across the island because peoples attitudes in the work place suck. Be nicer to your peers and things will blossom

[willieahyee]

😂 The LABORERS ALL TURNED INTO THEIR OWN BOSSES 🙌🏾🏆🍾

[Golgibaby]

Making Hawaii livable again. After a night's sleep, a better oriented solutions focused perspective, and endeavor to problem solve, perhaps the strategy here for youth retention aside from addressing the upstream problem of cost of living and limitation of resources to retain youth, is a reframe or rebranding of the so-called "incentives" to attract workers. What is the intrinsic value that speaks to the particular working populations? What are their unique needs and "'reasonable" motivations? A reasonable degree of certainty, a longer term pathway to self efficacy and agency, freedom, freedom, freedom, flexibility....a more dynamic, fluid, flexible way of making a living versus the traditional rigid, fixed, more stable, contractual, transactional ways of making a living....a restoration of trust in either establishments or a previous way of living....freedom versus imprisonment...youth want opportunity and hope and a return on self-effort...