Kroger workers leaving their jobs are receiving texts and emails from the company asking them to come back
Before grocery Employees who have left the company have received a surprising number of texts and emails. The supermarket operator—the nation’s biggest sales company—wants them back and isn’t afraid to reach out and let them know.
Of course, that’s not how things work. When you leave a company, it is likely that the company will later contact you to ask you to come back. You may have abandoned your boss for some reason. But lowest unemployment rate in 53 years This means that companies are becoming more creative in filling vacancies.
“Alumni are also a source of talent,” said Tim Massa, general manager of human resources for the grocery store, Talk to The Wall Street Journal. According to him, the Cincinnati-based company has been doing its best since the pandemic ended to stay in touch with former employees and has seen a significant number of them return to work. .
For example, the company convinced Tish Spurlock, a former employer at Kroger, to return after contacting her, magazine report. Spurlock left for a tech company but returned to Kroger in a new, higher-paying role.
Meanwhile, Associated Wholesale Grocers contacted former employees through LinkedIn and Facebookaccording to magazine. The company became more aggressive in hiring again after seeing how well it performed—returning workers often hit their targets months ahead of new hires.
Of course, fears of a recession remain, credit card debt in the US is growing while dwindling savings In the context of high inflation and news of mass layoffs at big-name companies, it has become an issue that cannot be ignored in recent months. But those layoffs are often concentrated in the tech industry, where many companies are over-hiring to meet increased demand during the pandemic.
Last month, Amazon start shooting 18,000 people, Microsoft ignore 10,000, and Google parent company Alphabet has cut 12,000 jobs. That was according to the Facebook owner Meta cuts 11,000 workers in November. Meta is widely expected to cut many jobs in the near future as part of the “effective year”. Last year, more than 150,000 technology workers were lay off, according to tracking website Layoffs.fyi. But many other tech companies are still hiring and tech workers are being laid off in general not unemployed for a long time.
Across the US economy, many workers left their jobs in the Great Resignation end up with a higher salary at a new job. Meanwhile, understaffed employers feel compelled to raise wages or offer higher wages to attract new talent.
Or in the case of Kroger and others, contact workers who have left their jobs.
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