With soaring cost of living, San Francisco businesses can't find new low-cost employees [View all]
Source: Mission Local
While the boom in San Francisco has helped boost business, shops and restaurants are finding that they have no one to make the sales. “We’re desperate,” said Jefferson McCarley, the owner of Mission Bicycle.
... “It’s because the working class of San Francisco is disappearing,” said Chewy Marzolo, who manages Escape From New York pizza on 22nd Street. Despite the recent minimum wage hike, he said, the city is too expensive. “Even with that jump, which is huge… People can’t afford to work for it.”
... At Harrington Galleries, a furniture store on Valencia Street that has been in business for more than 40 years, finding workers is a struggle. ... Owner-manager Fiona O’Connor needs a part-time manager with some experience in interior design, who would start at around $16 an hour. After a month, she still hasn’t found anyone.
... “Honestly, to survive in San Francisco on $15, $16, $17 is not easy,” McCarley acknowledged. Which, he and others observed, is simply resulting in driving people out of the city and attracting more commuter workers.
Read more: http://missionlocal.org/2015/10/sf-businesses-finds-employees-are-scarce/
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