[IpV8]

We're starting to see the mass layoffs begin. I wonder how much effort it would be for a company like Amazon to employ them as Temps. There is going to be a massive increase in availability of skilled workers looking for something to fill the gap.

[shrikant]

Amazon actually just announced this yesterday:

> Amazon is looking to hire 100,000 new warehouse and delivery workers to meet increased demands for shipments as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the company announced on Monday. It will also increase the hourly pay of workers employed in these positions by an additional $2 in the United States through April.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21182411/amazon-hires-emp...

[SketchySeaBeast]

While that's good in the short term, I feel like when things reset we'll find that people never stop being temps - the status quo, once set, is hard to change. A lot of the jobs that disappear now may never reappear as companies realize they don't really need that extra staff.

[Fjolsvith]

As the owner of a small company that has a hard time finding good help, I welcome the additions to the unemployed labor market.

My company doesn't wait for economic downturns to shed the staff that it didn't really need.

[SketchySeaBeast]

Many companies do, but many companies are going to realize they run even leaner now that they are forced too, and why would they rehire if things are running ok as they are.

Kind of unrelated, but:

> As the owner of a small company that has a hard time finding good help > My company doesn't wait for economic downturns to shed the staff that it didn't really need.

I hope that you're not saying you shed the good help when you don't need them.

[Fjolsvith]

No, letting good help go is like opening your own veins.

[_ea1k]

I was thinking the same thing. There are a lot of people who would gladly take this work right now.