Norfolk pub The Lion on staff shortages in hospitality
The upcoming summer season has never been so pivotal for the hospitality sector - and yet many businesses are being held back by lack of staff.
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The upcoming summer season has never been so pivotal for the hospitality sector - and yet many businesses are being held back by lack of staff.
Tom Ginn of Bread Hospitality on recruitment in the industry - Credit: Bread Hospitality/Socius In a summer season where Norfolk's hospitality sector will be working at 150pc to make up for a largely lost year, the sector will be doing so with one arm tied behind its back. That is because only 30pc of the workforce needed to fill vacancies are available, with an overwhelming majority of workers choosing to leave the industry either for another market, or another country. Tom Ginn, founder of Norwich-based hospitality recruitment firm Bread, said: "Usually in a recruitment process you'd...