As the effects of the pandemic lift and the economy starts to open up – staff shortages are becoming urgent.
Many foreign workers chose to leave the country at the height of the crisis – and they’re slow to return.
It’s a completely unexpected development, according to the managing director of the recruitment firm Interiman, Robin Gordon speaking to the Tribune de Genève.
The impact is being felt across all sectors, from watchmaking, medical equipment to construction.
Even retailers are now being hit as members can’t find enough people to work in shops.
Other countries are also seeing the same effect – in the US, McDonald’s has had to raise wages to persuade people to work for them.
But salaries are already quite high here – so that’s unlikely to have much of an effect, according to Anthony Caffon from the recruitment firm Michael Page Geneva.
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