Research shows that companies prefer to try anything but raise wages to attract staff, despite struggling to find employees
Only 0.4 percent of employers surveyed would raise wages to attract workers
The numbers came from a 2022 Skills Priority List Key Findings report in October
It said 67 percent of bosses would choose to continue advertising on the same sites
<!–
<!–
<!– <!–
<!–
<!–
<!–
A study has shown how far desperate companies will go to keep wages from rising despite chronic staff shortages.
A 2022 Skills Priority List report found that only 0.4 percent of bosses raised wages to fill vacancies, compared to 67 percent who chose to continue advertising in the same areas.
Australian entrepreneurs have struggled to find staff since Australia’s borders were closed at the start of the Covid pandemic and foreign workers have yet to return.
Nearly a third of all industries have a workforce shortage with 301,000 jobs up for grabs as the economy recovers from the Covid.
But a post on the report revealed employers’ lack of interest in raising workers’ wages to address unfilled vacancies.
A 2022 skills priority report said 0.4 percent of bosses raised wages to fill vacancies, compared with 67 percent who chose to continue advertising in the same areas
But a post on the report revealed employers’ lack of interest in raising wages to fill vacancies.
It even showed that employers would rather change job descriptions than raise salaries.
An illustration titled “employer responses to unfilled vacancies,” from the survey, gave percentages of responses for each reason.
‘Keep advertising/advertising again in the same places/sites/areas’ garnered 67 percent response, while advertising in different areas had 17 percent.
Giving up the position and restructuring the organization received six and seven percent respectively.
But the most convincing answer came from the “change reward” category, which scored a paltry 0.4 percent.
But a post on the report revealed employers’ lack of interest in raising workers’ wages to address unfilled vacancies.
The revelation was met with shock and humor on social media after a user posted his sarcastic comments about the numbers on Monday.
‘So you have trouble filling vacancies in your company. You are an employer, what do you do? Increase the offered wage? Lol no, what are you crazy???!’ the research result was subtitled when it was posted online.
“Complain out loud about labor shortages – 98%,” said one commenter, eager to add another comment on the issue.
The percentage of jobs with serious shortages has risen to 31 percent, but the situation is much worse in some areas than in others.
Hardest hit is nursing, with 9,266 job openings, according to a National Skills Commission report released Thursday before a state and federal jobs meeting.
The nursing shortage is followed by computer programming (7,841 vacancies), care for the elderly and disabled (5,101) and construction managers (4,948).
Childcare workers, auto mechanics, store managers, chefs, business analysts and metalworkers make up the rest of the top 10 in-demand occupations.
The shortage of skilled workers stretched across 286 occupations as the nation looked to other countries to fill our hundreds of thousands of vacancies.
An illustration titled ‘Employer Responses to Unfilled Jobs’, (pictured) from the survey, gave percentages of responses for each reason