At Maid to Sparkle, a residential cleaning service in Richmond, Virginia, the workforce has fallen by roughly half, according to owner Jonathan Bergstein.
He said that he had to turn down business and reschedule loyal customers, who he feared he could lose to a competitor.He said that the labor shortage and the resultant drop in capacity meant that his business' gross profit had dropped by between $1,000 and $2,000 each week.Before the pandemic, Maid to Sparkle made around $750,000 a year in gross profit, Bergstein said.
And Laborjack, a labor-for-hire company in Colorado, told Insider it expected to turn down jobs worth between $300,000 and $500,000 in 2021 because it can't find enough workers.that it had been able to raise prices, but had had to put up wages and pay out more bonuses to attract more workers.
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