Innovation – not more immigration – will tackle the worker shortage
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A wave of automation would make up for a lack of workers, improve flagging productivity and even increase people’s wages A cashierless shop. A reception-less hotel. And perhaps even a pay-at-the-pump bar. It might sound like something from a lost episode of Star Trek. And yet it could be everyday life in a few years.…
A wave of automation would make up for a lack of workers, improve flagging productivity and even increase people’s wages
A cashierless shop. A reception-less hotel. And perhaps even a pay-at-the-pump bar. It might sound like something from a lost episode of Star Trek. And yet it could be everyday life in a few years.
Squeezed between Brexit and the furlough scheme, and with the economy opening up again, British businesses are starting to run desperately short of workers. Ritzy restaurants are cancelling lunch bookings, chains are handing out bonuses to anyone who can bring in a new recruit and some are remaining closed because they don’t have the people to open up.
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