Employee Shortage Getting Dire on Oregon Coast
Published 05/06/21 at 7:35 PM PDT
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff
(Oregon Coast) – With all the changing COVID restrictions, closures, reopenings and resultant uncertainty in the travel industry, one thing that Oregon coast's hotel and food sectors can count on is a lack of employees.
Oregon's tourism-based beach towns have long been in various degrees of hurt when it comes to staffing because of a lack of affordable housing on the coast. This year's pandemic roller coaster ride has simply made it worse. All of the state's tourism industry is aching in some way when it comes to staffing, but on the Oregon coast it's dire.