"The pandemic disrupted many our work lives. Some of us — generally highly educated white-collar workers with relatively well-paying jobs — were able to shift to remote work. Millions of other workers, especially many poorly paid service workers, simply saw their jobs disappear when consumers stopped eating out and traveling.
Now the economy is recovering — a recovery that will probably continue despite the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. But many of us don’t want to go back to the way things were before. After a year and a half of working from home, many don’t want to return to the stress of commuting. And at least some of those who were forced into unemployment have come to realize how unhappy they were with low pay and poor working conditions, and are reluctant to go back to their previous jobs.
To be honest, when businesses began complaining about labor shortages, I was skeptical. These kinds of complaints always surface when the economy begins to recover from a slump and often mean only that job applicants have gotten a bit less desperate. Some of us also remember how, seven or eight years ago, Very Serious People insisted that we faced a major “skills gap” and would never be able to get unemployment down to the levels that prevailed before the financial crisis. (Spoiler: We did.)
At this point, however, it seems clear that something really is going on. You can see this from the data on vacancies: There are far more unfilled job openings than you would normally expect to see, given the current level of unemployment, which is still fairly high.
You can also see it by looking at what’s happening in the sector hit hardest by the pandemic, leisure and hospitality (think restaurants and hotels). Employment in that sector is still well below its prepandemic level; but to bring workers back, the sector has had to offer big wage increases, significantly above the prepandemic trend.
In other words, some workers really don’t seem willing to go back to their old jobs unless offered substantially more money and/or better working conditions. But why is this happening? And is it a bad thing?
Perversely, the pandemic may have given many of us a chance to figure out what really matters to us — and the money we were being paid for unpleasant jobs, some now realize, just wasn’t enough."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/opinion/workers-wages-recovery.html
2021 m. rugpjūčio 24 d., antradienis
Workers Don’t Want Their Old Jobs on the Old Terms
2021 m. rugpjūčio 23 d., pirmadienis
Raineris Seele: iš kur mes Europoje gausime vandenilio?
Rainer Seele: Where we in Europe will get the hydrogen from?
Rainer Seele is President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce Abroad (AHK) and head of OMV AG. [1]
1. "OMV is an Austrian multinational integrated oil, gas and petrochemical company which is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The company is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, OMV Group was ranked as the 441st -largest public company in the world."
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/omv-chef-brauchen-wasserstoff-allianz-mit-russland-17497731.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2
Who is a madman?
It’s a person who repeats the same thing, hoping to get a different result over time. Often such a person still screams nonsense. Lithuanian rulers shout nonsense about Belarus' hybrid (don't ask) aggression against Lithuania. In reality, there is a real, not some crazy hybrid, Lithuanian aggression against Belarus in an attempt to overthrow the Belarusian government. And the Belarussian government is still here, in our neighborhood. V. Landsbergis, the KGB resident in Lithuania, says about the Belarusian regime: it is nonsense that we need to talk to crazy dictators, i.e. V. Landsbergis using the KGB method accuses that Belarus has V. Landsbergis' problem. In reality, V. Landsbergis himself is a madman dangerous for Lithuania.
Kas yra beprotis?
Tai žmogus, kuris kartoja tą patį, tikėdamasis su laiku gauti kitokį rezultatą. Dažnai toks žmogus dar rėkia nesąmones. Lietuvos valdantieji rėkia nesąmones apie Baltarusijos hibridinę (neklausk) agresiją prieš Lietuvą. Realiai vyksta tikra, o ne kažkokia hibridinė, Lietuvos agresija prieš Baltarusiją, bandant nuversti Baltarusijos valdžią. O Baltarusijos valdžia vis dar čia, mūsų kaimynystėje. KGB statytinis Lietuvoje V. Landsbergis sako apie Baltarusijos režimą: plepalai, kad reikia kalbėtis su bepročiais diktatoriais, t.y. V. Landsbergis KGB metodu kaltina Baltarusiją tuo, kuo pats serga. Realiai V. Landsbergis pats yra pavojingas Lietuvai beprotis.