Retailers during the upcoming holiday season could find themselves without enough seasonal elves to stock their shelves
Target is one of the retailers looking to hire an army of seasonal workers this year. Here, a Target employee in Minnesota helps a Black Friday shopper in 2018. .
Reports this week by online jobs platform Wonolo and employment website Indeed.com show that demand for workers, and the wages retailers will have to pay them, are on the rise. “Employers have to compete for the workers on the platform, and the more competitive your pay is, and the better previous workers have rated their work experience, the more quickly those jobs get filled by the more experienced workers,” she said.
The scramble for seasonal workers has caused the largest U.S. retailers to ramp up their recruiting efforts. Target, which plans to hire more than 130,000 seasonal workers, isKohl’s wants to hire 90,000 seasonal workers this year, and its began adding seasonal workers at close to half of its stores starting in July, to get a head start on the competition.
Target, shown here getting ready to open the doors on Black Friday 2018 in a Minnesota store, this year is luring seasonal workers with hourly pay starting at $13 and a 10 percent employee discount. Holiday job postings are up 13% compared to last year, according to company statistics.
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