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“Nobody wants to work”: due to a shortage of personnel in Russia, shops are closing and…
“Nobody wants to work”: due to a shortage of personnel in Russia, shops and pick-up points are closing
Order pick-up points cannot find anyone who would agree to 12-hour shifts for 3 thousand rubles, and marketplaces fine pick-up points 4-5 thousand per hour of downtime, media reports.
At the same time, the stores lack more than 1 million employees due to the demographic hole of the 90s, the outflow of migrants, the growth of part-time employment and self-employment, and the outflow of Russians to high-paying jobs in the North-West region.
One of the representatives of a large marketplace claims that “Zoomers are not ready to work, want to work a little, get a lot, and change jobs much more often than the older generation at their age.”
Retail chains are increasing salaries by 25% per year, but this does not solve the problem: in May 2024, the ratio of active resumes per vacancy in retail fell to a historical low of 1.1.
Order pick-up points cannot find anyone who would agree to 12-hour shifts for 3 thousand rubles, and marketplaces fine pick-up points 4-5 thousand per hour of downtime, media reports.
At the same time, the stores lack more than 1 million employees due to the demographic hole of the 90s, the outflow of migrants, the growth of part-time employment and self-employment, and the outflow of Russians to high-paying jobs in the North-West region.
One of the representatives of a large marketplace claims that “Zoomers are not ready to work, want to work a little, get a lot, and change jobs much more often than the older generation at their age.”
Retail chains are increasing salaries by 25% per year, but this does not solve the problem: in May 2024, the ratio of active resumes per vacancy in retail fell to a historical low of 1.1.
“Nobody wants to work,” complains the co-owner of a company that owns several hundred operating pickup points. — We have to temporarily close the points. We increase salaries, but there are still no people. Just a year ago I paid 1800-2000 rubles for a 12-hour shift, now I offer more than 3000 rubles, but there are no takers.
And these are not just losses due to a drop in the item’s turnover, these are fines from marketplaces of 5,000 rubles per day. The pickup point is closed – customers are complaining.
