Nebraska businesses report great difficulty in hiring, getting applicants | Nebraska Examiner

LINCOLN — How laborious is it for Nebraska firms to seek out employees?

Actual laborious, in accordance with latest state labor report.

In surveys of companies within the Omaha space and northeast and southeast Nebraska, as much as 94% of companies responding to a “labor availability” survey stated they’d hiring difficulties.

Within the Omaha space, 84% of the companies surveyed reported hiring difficulties, with the most important drawback (82.5%) being a scarcity of candidates.

Of the areas surveyed, Falls Metropolis, Fairbury and Nebraska Metropolis had probably the most hassle hiring new workers, with difficulties being reported by between 90% and 92% of all companies.

The pinnacle of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, Bryan Slone, not too long ago said that with 52,000 vacant jobs in Nebraska, the shortage of labor is the “primary, two, three, 4 and 5” points going through the state’s enterprise group.

The survey, launched final month, additionally discovered that about 50% of all companies had used tele-work, permitting employees to work from home, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

The annual “labor availability” report was achieved for the Nebraska Division of Labor.

In 2016, the Nebraska Legislature handed a legislation permitting the Labor Division and the Nebraska Division of Financial Growth to conduct labor availability research to find out the state’s wants and gaps in talent units.

Greater than 3,000 companies responded to the latest survey, which centered on three areas: Southeast Nebraska (Beatrice, Fairbury, Falls Metropolis, and Nebraska Metropolis), the better Omaha space, and northeast Nebraska (Columbus, Fremont, Norfolk, and Wayne).